«A lab of one’s own», by Rita Colwell and Sharon B. McGrayne
May 30, 2021
This book is both a biography and an inspiring reflection on the sexism of the scientific world in recent decades
Etiqueta: literature
Science from fiction
Jun 04, 2020
Once again this year, science and literature merge in this tenth edition of the Inspiraciencia short story competition. Before 7 June, those who want to participate can submit their short science-based stories in Spanish, Catalan, Gallician, and Basque.
Alice in Hallucinationland
Mar 06, 2020
Alice goes on a journey during which peculiar characters tell her what to eat or drink. Then, strange things happen. Doesn't all this seem like a drug-induced psychedelic journey?
‘Narrating health’, medical popularisation through literature
Mar 13, 2018
The new Mètode monograph, Narrating health, shows the different ways in which the literature connects medicine and health.
Literature in medical teaching
Dec 02, 2017
Literature constitutes an important educational element that can improve the doctor-patient relationship because it facilitates better understanding of illnesses.
Vacation stories
Dec 02, 2017
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was also the author of some very important scientific and biographical work as well as his Vacation stories. Five science fiction tales, a collection of five short stories with an educational purpose.
A science fiction implant
Dec 02, 2017
Long before the first successful transplants were performed on humans, some writers had already written about them in fiction. Literature can contribute to the ethical and social debate surrounding transplants.
Guilt, daily life, and love
Dec 02, 2017
We can identify two periods in the history of AIDS patient narratives: before and after the discovery of triple therapies. We analyse the changes this paradigm shift produced on literature.
Sanatoriums in contemporary narratives
Dec 01, 2017
Literature and medicine are closely connected. Many works that portray experiences of disease have been set in health care facilities, including sanatoriums. Anti-tuberculosis sanatoriums, seen as spaces of isolation and as «death row» have inspired many authors. Twentieth-century novels devoted significant attention to these institutions which, kept far from the rest of society, conditioned both the life and the identity of the sick.
Death in literature
Dec 01, 2017
Literature has had a range of ways to approach the concept of death, from expressions of personal grief, through to the ways they are represented in a culture.