29/02/24
Fallas and Easter Timetable
On the occasion of Fallas, the Biblioteca Historicomèdica (Historical Medical Library) will be closed from March 15 to 20, both days included.
On the other hand, the Library will be closed on the afternoon of March 14 from 2 p.m. onwards.
The Study Room will be open during normal hours on March 14.
The Library will be closed during Holy Week and Easter, between March 28 and April 8, both days included.
We apologize for any inconvenience
22/02/24
Presentation of the books: "Prevenir antes que curar. Las crisis sanitarias y las lecciones de la historia" and "Manual de historia de la medicina"
Next Thursday, February 29, 2024, at 5 p.m. will take place in the Assembly Hall of the Palau de Cerveró (headquarters in Valencia of the Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero) the presentation of the books:
"Prevenir antes que curar. Las crisis sanitarias y las lecciones de la historia" (Preventing rather than curing. Health crises and the lessons of history) by Josep Bernabeu Mestre, professor of history of science at the Universitat d'Alacant.
"Manual de historia de la medicina" (Handbook on history of medicine) coordinated by Josep L Barona, professor of history of science at the University of Valencia.
J. Bernabeu's book looks at the past to explain the current health crises and to face possible future scenarios.
The Manual coordinated by JL Barona is a work of collective consultation with the participation of twenty authors. It vindicates history as a tool for reflecting on the present.
The event will be attended by the authors.
12/02/24
Loan and consultation services not available on next feb 14 afternoon
Next wednesday february 14 both loan service and consultation of the collections located at closed depositories will not be available from 6.00 pm onwards.
If you need to return a book, please leave it at the concierge desk on the ground floor.
We apologise for the inconveniences.
15/01/24
Library closed next January 22 and afternoon of January 23
The Biblioteca Historicomèdica (Historical Medical Library) will remain closed next Monday January 22, the feast of St. Vincent Martyr, and on the afternoon of Tuesday January 23.
The Study Room on the first floor will be at your disposal on the afternoon of Tuesday 23.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
21/12/23
Publication of the book "Las políticas de la locura. Psiquiatría y sociedad en la España de Franco" (Madness politics: psychiatry and society in Franco's Spain), by Enric Novella
Professor of History of Science at the Universitat de València and IILP researcher Enric Novella has just published the monograph "Las políticas de la locura. Psiquiatría y sociedad en la España de Franco" (Madness politics: psychiatry and society in Franco's Spain) within the prestigious collection Historia y Memoria del Franquismo of Publicacions de la Unversitat de València. Attached is the text of its editorial presentation.
In recent years, the study of the evolution of psychiatric discourses and practices during the Franco regime has become a relevant chapter in the historiography of science in 20th century Spain. Although this evolution unfolded in changing coordinates and included very different aspects (such as the cultivation of clinical-theoretical speculation, the introduction of therapeutic novelties, the institutional strengthening of the specialty or the dissemination of the new mental health ideology), the Franco regime was above all a period in which mental medicine was particularly conditioned by the prevailing socio-political framework. Considering the main axes along which the political and social dimension of psychiatry was articulated throughout the forty years of dictatorship (ideology, doctrine, government, management and citizenship), this monograph offers a new overall interpretation of the peculiar "psychopolitical" constellation of Franco's Spain as a complex and protean amalgam of reactionarism, conservatism, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, technocracy and (finally) civic overflow.
15/12/23
Library closed on the afternoons of December 21 and 22
The Researchers' Room of the Biblioteca Historicomèdica will be closed on the afternoons of December 21 and 22.
The Study Room will maintain its usual opening hours.
We apologize for any inconvenience.