Fitxa persona

Full Professor of the History of Science at the University of Valencia and researcher at the López Piñero Interuniversity Institute for Historical and Social Studies on Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment. He holds a PhD in medicine from the University of Hamburg and a master’s degree in philosophy from the Free University of Berlin, and he trained as a psychiatrist at the University Clinical Hospital of Valencia. He was a predoctoral fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a postdoctoral fellow of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Luxembourg. He has completed training, teaching, and research stays at various universities and academic institutions in Europe, Latin America, and the United States (Heidelberg, CNRS Paris, UNAM Mexico City, Tübingen, Cambridge, and Harvard, among others). He is the author of the books Der junge Foucault und die Psychopathologie (Berlin, 2008), La ciencia del alma (Madrid/Frankfurt, 2013), El discurso psicopatológico de la modernidad (Madrid, 2018) and Las políticas de la locura (Valencia, 2023), as well as of several articles and essays devoted to the history and philosophy of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine —some of them published in leading international journals such as Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Health Care Analysis, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, History of Psychiatry, Social History of Medicine, History of the Human Sciences, Paedagogica Historica, and Medical History. Throughout his career, he has focused on the crystallization and development of psychological medicine, psychological culture, the psychopathological gaze, public health, psychopolitics, the clinics of subjectivity, illness experience, and trauma culture within the framework of the two major historical and philosophical problems of subjectivity and modernity.