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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...