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Editores: Carmel Ferragud i Alfons Zarzoso ISBN: 978-84-1396-107-1 https://doi.org/10.4995/9788413961071edUPV L’obra ofereix una visió de llarg recorregut sobre l’impacte de les epidèmies a les societats mediterrànies, especialment als territoris de l’antiga Corona d’Aragó, des del segle XV fins al XX, posant l’accent en el paper central dels municipis. Les epidèmies es presenten com a crisis globals que afecten tots els àmbits de la vida social i que revelen tant les fragilitats com les capacitats d’organització col·lectiva. El llibre defensa que, davant l’absència d’estats forts, l’administració local va esdevenir l’espai clau de resposta política, sanitària i social, amb mesures que van evolucionar però que mantingueren una continuïtat notable al llarg dels segles. A través d’estudis de cas locals, es mostra com medicina, religió, economia i poder municipal interactuaren en la gestió del contagi. El volum recorre les grans pestes medievals, la pesta de 1647-48 i les epidèmies contem...

Presentació de: "Artesanías Biológicas. Por qué la biología y la clínica necesitan a las personas intersex" (Sam Fernández, 2025) i  "Listening to the Cervix: a Handbook on Early-Stages Cervical Cancer, Embodied Knowledge and Power" (Còmic, Laia i Lyona, 2026) 10 de juny / 19 h / Casal Popular Sageta de Foc, (c/Sant Domènec, Baixos 1 i 2, Tarragona) Organitzen:  Casal Popular Sageta de Foc, Llibreria El Soterrani, Grupo SALHISOC-UCLM, MARC-URV i DAFITS-URV.  Més info:  sam.fernandez@uclm.es    Vivències i sabers és un espai de conversa entre perspectives que rarament dialoguen juntes. Des de les intersexualitats fins al càncer de cèrvix, pensem què ens revelen aquestes experiències i sabers sobre la ginecologia i la cura ... i imaginem altres ginecologies iformes de cura possibles i desitjables  

This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs. This panel seeks to explore wellness culture influencers, trends, and movements in order to better understand what forces, values, and beliefs give rise to competing definitions of "health" and "wellness" and to explore the...

In the early modern period (c. 1500-1700), Iberian religious refugees, scholars, merchants, and diplomats took up residence in Tuscany. In search of protection or fame, they weaved a network that linked Iberia, Tuscany, and wider imperial territories. New Christians, Moriscos, and other communities displaced by persecution—as well as intellectuals, philosophers, medical practitioners, envoys, diplomats, and other intermediaries—mediated the circulation of knowledge, materials, and political interests between courts, universities, and religious institutions. By taking a broad view of these encounters, this workshop aims to explore the multiple and layered presence of Iberian agents in early modern Tuscany between c. 1500 and 1700. Papers may also address the reception and assimilation of knowledge, materials, and ideas from the Portuguese and Spanish empires within Italian contexts. WE PARTICULARLY ENCOURAGE CONTRIBUTIONS WHICH ADDRESS TOPICS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Mobility, exi...

Se ha publicado recientemente el libro "Cerebros electrónicos. Historia de los orígenes de la informática en España", de José María López Sánchez y Alba Fernández Gallego (Editorial Comares, 2026). El volumen analiza la llegada y desarrollo de la informática en España con el objetivo de comprender el significado histórico y cultural de los distintos procesos que acompañaron la implantación del ordenador electrónico en nuestro país. Desde una perspectiva amplia, el estudio aborda este fenómeno atendiendo a sus dimensiones científicas, políticas, económicas y sociales, proponiendo una aproximación que va más allá de la historia técnica de la computación . El marco temporal se sitúa entre el final de la Guerra Civil y el último tercio del siglo XX, con especial atención a las décadas del franquismo, la transición a la democracia y los primeros años del nuevo sistema político. En este contexto, el libro examina la introducción de la informática en ámbitos como la administración d...

Autor: Jonathan Fuller Contemporary scientific medicine is a new modern medicine-one shaped by new disease epidemics, new norms of evidence, and the new sciences of epidemiology. Jonathan Fuller provides a philosophical treatment of this new modern medicine, an epidemiological medicine that has dominated healthcare for decades. Epidemiological medicine is a model of medicine calibrated to the management of epidemic noncommunicable diseases such as cancers and chronic conditions, reliant on evidence from epidemiological studies such as clinical trials and infused with epidemiological thinking. The New Modern Medicine utilizes resources from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of medicine to examine disease and evidence in the new modern medicine, particularly problems brought about by the twentieth century integration of medicine with epidemiology. Fuller explores topics such as the nature and evolution of modern scientific medicine, theories of contagion and cancer, the ca...

Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2026 Feedback: October 30, 2026 Deadline for completed contributions: April 30, 2027  As in literature, professional nursing is a constant, and sometimes even central, theme in art history: Professional nurses appear as characters in the visual arts, in films, and in typical soap operas—portrayed here as well as in these genres as compassionate heroines, dutiful shadow figures, or powerful antagonists to medical authority. Having explored the poetics of nursing in our initial approach to the topic of nursing in art, this next step will focus on visualizations of nursing in photography, painting, and film.  We are seeking contributions that, from a scholarly perspective, focus on professional nurses as individuals or collective bodies and analyze how they are visualized in the aforementioned (art) forms. We are interested in all questions that reveal the ideas, normative assumptions, conceptions, and social contexts underlying such visualiz...

Within the frame of  Cost Action CA23149 “Democratization at Stake? Comparing Anti-Gender Politics in Central East Europe and the Near and Middle East” , we aim at compiling a special issue on Health Feminism and Anti-Gender Politics: Knowledge, Body Politics and Reactions in a Historical Perspective Starting in the late 1960s, health books and other publications written ‘by women for women’, the practice of self-examination and the concept of women’s health centres stimulated demands for better and women-centred health care. This new focus on women’s health emerged as a transnational phenomenon from “Western” women’s movements to socialist feminism beyond the Iron Curtain, Hence, health issues stand at the core of feminist mobilization as well as they stand at the core of anti-gender mobilizations as the current refusals of gender-related medicine by antiliberal actors show. This issue wants to historicize and discuss these observations from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contr...

An international, interdisciplinary conference, organised by the SNSF Starting Grant Team “Matter of Distinction: Early Modern Hair, Race, Trade, and Multispecies History” (Annika Bärwald, Laura Schleiss, Sarah-Maria Schober) at the University of Lucerne on October 8–10, 2026. Hyper-present on almost all heads and bodies, hair is a forceful matter of difference. It signals gender, class, sometimes religion or politics – as well as racialised distinction. As such, hair connects and disconnects humans and other species across the globe and throughout history. The conference “Global Histories of Hair” aims to bring together researchers working on hair as a matter of distinction in the early modern and modern worlds.  One temporal focus is on the period between approximately 1500 and 1850, encapsulating the European and colonial “age of the wig”. Alongside various types of animal hair reaching their position as “commodities of empire” during this time, human hair was cut, collected and...

Ivitación a participar en la mesa «Médicos españoles en el exilio tras 1939: redes relacionales y circulación de conocimiento en América Latina», en el marco de las XIV Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de España «Mundos Hispánicos: Archivos, Fuentes y Métodos» (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Fundación para la Historia de España), las cuales tendrán lugar en modalidad virtual los días 2, 3 y 4 de septiembre de 2026. El objetivo de la sesión radica en reflexionar sobre las redes relacionales y la circulación de conocimiento de los médicos españoles exiliados a países de América Latina tras la Guerra Civil española. Adjunto pueden encontrar una descripción más detallada sobre los objetivos de la mesa y la segunda circular de las jornadas con la información relativa al envío de propuestas. Este es el enlace de la página web de las jornadas: https://www.fheargentina.com.ar/jornadas2026/ . Cada propuesta deberá incluir: título, resumen de hasta 300 palabras y palabras claves en español...