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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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.