Rita Levi-Montalcini’s life can be summarised in a single sentence: more than one century of struggle. Levi-Montalcini lived a hundred-year life during which she

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We live in a rapidly transforming world. Social reality moves, nature moves, the cosmos moves and human beings move as well, but we do

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The human body is a cultural construct, the convergence point of all kinds of cultural elements: scientific, artistic, and religious. If classical natural

Mètode The professional rise of surgery in the eighteenth century may not be understood without the Napoleonic

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The generation of scientists and physicians who lived during the interwar years (1914-1945) were specially involved in the military and