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HEALTH, HISTORY AND SOCIETY (SALHISOC)

TRANS2022-017

HEALTH, HISTORY AND SOCIETY (SALHISOC)

Transversal Area: Primary Care, public health, health care ….

Objectives and lines of research

– Social and constructivist history of disease, particularly the history of influenza, rabies, measles, rubella, smallpox, mumps, and diphtheria, and of neurological and disabling diseases, such as smallpox, polio, and leprosy.
– History of Public Health and Social Protection Policies. It studies the collective response that societies have offered to face health problems throughout history, how Public Health was configured and how social protection policies were developed to address these problems, also evaluating the role of international agencies (Rockefeller Foundation, Hygiene Committee of the League of Nations, WHO, European Association against Poliomyelitis, Red Cross).
– Medical-anthropological perspectives on the construction of disease: notion, etiology, explanatory model and therapeutic itineraries.
– History of the relations of Medicine and physicians with the Natural and Anthropological Sciences.

Research team

  • MARIA ISABEL PORRAS GALLO
  • MARIA VICTORIA CABALLERO MARTINEZ
  • PEDRO LUIS ROMERA GARRIDO
  • MARTA VELASCO MARTÍN
  • NOELIA MARÍA MARTÍN ESPINOSA
  • LOURDES MARIÑO GUTIÉRREZ

Responsible

MARIA ISABEL PORRAS GALLO

IP

MARIA ISABEL PORRAS GALLO