- Nueva ed. de la obra dirigida a los estudiantes del grado de Medicina con un enfoque totalmente adaptado a las directrices de los nuevos planes de estudio, en los que la asignatura de Humanidades médicas va ganando protagonismo. - Esta obra analiza los problemas de la medicina desde una perspectiva histórica interdisciplinar. No es sólo un libro de historia documental, sino que utiliza herramientas conceptuales que provienen de otras disciplinas humanísticas como la filosofía y la ética e intenta llegar a comprender y evaluar las situaciones actuales. - La presente obra se integra así en el conjunto de las llamadas nuevas humanidades médicas. En la nueva edición se han incluido nuevos capítulos sobre el ambiente. Uno de ellos analiza los problemas del ambiente causados por el ser humano, otro presenta los problemas del ser humano causados por el ambiente, y en otro más se muestra un panorama de la ética ambiental actual y del movimiento ecologista. Por otra parte, se ha modificado todo lo referente a las enfermedades infecciosas, porque, en la última década, la secuenciación de genomas microbianos antiguos y los progresos de la paleomicrobiología han cambiado muchas ideas previas. - La obra no pretende ser un simple libro de historia de la medicina, sino un contenido actualizado sobre los problemas de la medicina analizados con la ayuda de la historia, y de cualquier otra disciplina que tenga algo que aportar

I. Historia de la salud y la enfermedad II. Diferentes formas de medicina III. Instituciones y ejercicio médico IV. Conocimientos médicos V. Recursos preventivos VI. Historia y filosofía del método científico VII. Documentación y terminología médica. La nueva ed. cuenta con 32 capítulos ya que incluye como novedad: 1) Un capítulo introductorio, 2) una sección entera: "La Ecología y su relación con la enfermedad”-3 capítulos- y 3) un capítulo sobre genética.

The sociology of health and illness is a rapidly growing field. Yet, as a field, it has suffered from a remarkably limited perspective dominated by scholarship produced in the global north. Scholars in the sociology of health and illness have been late to enter debates in global health and have generally failed to learn lessons from work originating in the global south. To begin to address this limitation, this edited collection features notable contributions from Latin American scholars exploring key issues, including sickle cell disease in Brazil, cancer and Chagas disease in Argentina and reproductive health in Mexico. This collection, offering a snapshot of the rich and nuanced research being conducted in the region, offers readers valuable lessons. It is our argument that Latin American health sociology has much to offer the larger field of sociology – both for what it can teach us about Latin America in and of itself, and for what this field of scholarship can teach us about health and illness as broadly defined. This collection challenges readers to think about the global nature of health inequalities. Rich in empirical data and theoretical substance, this book is an essential collection for readers interested in understanding the sociology of health and illness. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Health Sociology Review and as individual papers in Global Public Health and Critical Public Health.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health provides a bridge between translation studies and the burgeoning field of health humanities, which seeks novel ways of understanding health and illness. As discourses around health and illness are dependent on languages for their transmission, impact, spread, acceptance and rejection in local settings, translation studies offers a wealth of data, theoretical approaches and methods for studying health and illness globally. Translation and health intersect in a multitude of settings, historical moments, genres, media and users. This volume brings together topics ranging from interpreting in healthcare settings to translation within medical sciences, from historical and contemporary travels of medicine through translation to areas such as global epidemics, disaster situations, interpreting for children, mental health, women’s health, disability, maternal health, queer feminisms and sexual health, and nutrition. Contributors come from a wide range of disciplines, not only from various branches of translation and interpreting studies, but also from disciplines such as psychotherapy, informatics, health communication, interdisciplinary health science and classical Islamic studies. Divided into four sections and each contribution written by leading international authorities, this timely Handbook is an indispensable resource for all students and researchers of translation and health within translation and interpreting studies, as well as medical and health humanities. Intorduction and Chapter 18 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

The book contains twenty-one interviews with those who are unanimously considered the greatest pioneers in the scientific field of the History of Education, having opened new avenues of investigation and promoted works of considerable magnitude and depth, which have since become treasured assets for the entire scientific community. Each interview covers their biography and academic careers, highlighting not only their successes, but also the difficulties they encountered in the workplace. From the pages emerge useful hints and tips for those who today are venturing into the world of History of Education research, alongside the enthusiasm and curiosity that have unfailingly distinguished the work of each of these pioneers, in whose footsteps we continue to walk.