La pregunta sobre nuestras formas de curación, tratamientos médicos, solución de enfermedades, itinerarios terapéuticos, sistemas de salud, políticas de salud pública, y todo lo que rodea a nuestra salud y medicina, es una pregunta amplia que tiene múltiples formas de responder y entender. En especial cuando no solo hablamos de la medicina -en singular- sino ... Show More
Apr 17
José Carlos Puente Luna, En los reinos de España. Viajeros andinos, justicia y favor en la corte de los Austrias.
Este libro explora el mundo de los viajeros andinos a la corte de los Habsburgo. El estudio presenta estos viajes a través del Atlántico Ibérico a la vez como un reflejo de los profundos cambios operados en las sociedades indígenas andinas tras la Conquista y como un poderoso cat ... Show More
1m 45s
Apr 17
Ana Sofia Ferreira, Revolução nos campos do sul: A participação das mulheres na reforma agrária em Portugal, 1974-1976.
Autora entrevistada: Dra. Ana Sofia Ferreira, Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. ORCID: https://https//orcid.org/0000-0002-5521-4191 Artículo: Revolução nos campos do sul: A participação das mulheres na reforma agrária em Portugal, 1974-1976. ARevolução do ... Show More
29m 45s
May 2024
Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
In a broken world, in which even God Himself is in a state of deep crisis, what is required in order to mend the rupture? How can one heal God and His world? Moreover, what might allow our actions to be effective? These questions stand at the heart of the Lurianic Kabbalah, the a ... Show More
40m 56s
Apr 2017
Episode #18: Diagnosis: Art History (Season 1, Episode 18)
Over the centuries, there have been numerous examples of fine artists creating works of art that deliberately work with and within contemporaneous medical thought, portraying people with particular ailments or diseases. But what about if we turn that concept around a little bit? ... Show More
26m 50s
May 2023
Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000 (Bloomsbury, 2023): Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how ... Show More
54m 3s
Oct 2020
Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond" (Transcript Verlag, 2020)
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a conte ... Show More
59m 13s