Spain's journey in medicine : from Moorish surgery to modern research /

It is generally known that the most important medical contributions to the world have been made by scientists from the UK, Northern Europe, America, and Italy.Nevertheless, Spain has produced lesser-known but significant medical contributions to the global community, often by scientists working almo...

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Other Authors: Cuesta, Miguel A., Mateo Vallejo, Francisco
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2026.
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Table of Contents:
  • MUSLIM-JEWISH MEDICINE IN AL-ANDALUS: ABULCASIS AND MAIMONIDES
  • MIGUEL SERVET (MICHAEL SERVETUS): Between heresy and science. Discovery of the minor circulation
  • DIONISIO DAZA CHACON. The most relevant Spanish surgeon of the Renaissance, in the Spanish Empire
  • QUININE: Discovery and diffusion of quinine throughout the world for the treatment of malaria
  • ANTONIO DE GIMBERNAT: The first school of Surgery in Spain and his contributions to inguinal anatomy
  • THE ROYAL PHILANTROPIC VACCINE EXPEDITION, THE BALMIS EXPEDITION (1804-1812). The smallpox vaccine that circled the globe
  • MANUEL GARCIA: The inventor of the laryngoscope and pioneer of voice physiology
  • JOS GOYANES CAPDEVILA: Performed the first vascular bypass in history on 12 June 1906, published in El Siglo Mdico
  • FIDEL PAGS MIRAV: Discovery of Epidural Anaesthesia (metameric anesthesia). War surgery in the RIF (Morocco)
  • SANTIAGO RAMN Y CAJAL: Cajal and the Spanish Neurological School
  • JOAQUN ALBARRN Y DOMNGUEZ: Universal figure in Urology
  • PO DEL RO HORTEGA: Discoverer of the Neuroglia and the Tumors classification of Central Nervous System
  • FERNANDO DE CASTRO: Disciple of Cajal, key figure in the Spanish Neurological School and his transcendent discovery of the arterial chemoreceptors at the carotid body
  • JOSEP TRUETA I RASPALL: Surgeon, researcher and committed citizen
  • CARLOS JIMNEZ DAZ: Basic Sciences are fundamental for Clinic Medicine
  • SEVERO OCHOA Y ALBORNOZ: Discovering enzymes and the genetic code and founding the Spanish Society of Biochemistry
  • DON CARLOS AND DON SEVERO: Double partners for the success of Spanish biomedical science
  • FRANCESC DURAN REYNALS: Beyond the viral theory of cancer
  • FRANCISCO ORTS LLORCA: The Anatomy and development of experimental embryology
  • THE ABC OF SPANISH OPHTHALMOLOGY: ARRUGA, BARRAQUER AND CASTROVIEJO
  • FRANCISCO GRANDE COVIN: Physiology of nutrition
  • THE GIL VERNET SAGA IN UROLOGY
  • SARA BORRELL RUIZ: Steroid Hormones
  • JOAN OR: The origin of Life
  • CARMEN GIL FERNNDEZ: Virology in Spain
  • THE NATIONAL TRANSPLANT ORGANIZATION: A model for the world
  • CONVERSATIONS WITH MARIANO BARBACID: A life of fighting cancer
  • IN SEARCH OF THE SECRET OF SUDDEN DEATH: THE BRUGADA SYNDROME
  • NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY: The race to discover hypothalamic hormones
  • MARGARITA SALAS: The polymerase and DNA replication
  • VALENTN FUSTER: A life with purpose
  • LUIS ROJAS MARCOS: The restless psychiatrist
  • GABRIELLA MORREALE: Iodine and thyroid hormones in brain development
  • MAGDALENA UGARTE: Inherited Metabolic Diseases
  • FRANCISCO MARTINEZ MOJICA: Francis Mojica, discoverer of the CRISPR systems in prokaryotes
  • ANTONIO GARCIA-BELLIDO: The genetic basis of development and morphogenesis
  • MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY (MIS) IN SPAIN AND ITS DIFFUSION TO THE WORLD
  • RAFAEL YUSTE ROJAS: Discovering our brain. The BRAIN project and the neurorights
  • JUAN C. IZPISA BELMONTE: The scientist who studies cellular aging in order to rejuvenate it
  • JOSEP BASELGA: The doctor who wished to change the world of oncology
  • HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPANISH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: Primary Care and its Community Dimension within the NHS
  • FROM RODS TO LLOVET. The road to excellence in hepatology.