Dynamis 

About: Dynamis is an academic journal published by University of Granada. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Public health & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0211-9536. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 751 publications have been published receiving 2890 citations.

She will give birth easily: therapeutic approaches to childbirth in 1st millennium BCE cuneiform sources

Abstract: This article offers, in the first place, an overview on women's healthcare in relation to childbirth in ancient Mesopotamia, as an introduction that helps to evaluate the meaning of the 7th century Assur text BAM 248 within therapeutic cuneiform texts on childbirth. We proceed to analyse the variety of therapeutic approaches to childbirth present in BAM 248, which brings together various healing devices to help a woman give birth quickly and safely. We analyse the text in its entirety as an example of intersection between different medical approaches to childbirth, given the number of differences in the complexity of remedies, in the materia medica employed, in the methods of preparation and application, even in the technical knowledge required and also, most probably, in the social origin and/or use of the remedies in question.

Where the philosopher finishes, the physician begins: medicine and the arts course in thirteenth-century Oxford.

Abstract: In the thirteenth century the English universities were different from others, particularly those in the south of Europe, in two important ways: they taught more natural philosophy and less medicine. But the survival of students' notes from the second half of the century shows that in the formal course of lectures on natural philosophy attention was paid to medicine inside the arts course. The present discussion examines the nature of this medical material and the institutional and intellectual relationship between medicine and philosophy.

Milk, social acceptance of a new food in Europe: Catalonia, 19th-20th centuries

Abstract: In this article we analyse the time course of the consumption of fresh milk in different regions of Europe between the 1870s and 1930s. Working from the case of Catalonia, we affirm that the increasing consumption of milk in that period must be especially linked to the spreading of new scientific knowledge in microbiology and nutrition that followed Pasteur’s discoveries. We particularly highlight the information dissemination activities in this direction carried out by health sector professionals (medical doctors and pharmacists), governing local institutions and the milk industry. The initiatives developed by these groups changed people’s preferences —fresh milk became accepted as a necessary food-stuff, and demand for it increased. However, the evolution of consumption was not the same in all regions of Europe due to their different environmental and agronomic conditions.

La revolución química: Entre la historia y la memoria

Abstract: En la famosa Encyclopedie de mediados del siglo XVIII se afirmaba que «el gusto por la quimica» era «una pasion de locos». Los quimicos formaban «un pueblo distinto, muy poco numeroso, con su lengua, sus leyes, sus misterios, casi aislado, en medio de gentes poco curiosas por conocer sus actividades», que no esperaban «nada de su arte». Al acabar el siglo, la situacion habia cambiado de manera radical, hasta el punto que un autor de esos anos llego a afirmar que la quimica se habia convertido en el «idolo» frente al que «se arrodillaban» personas de toda condicion. Este libro analiza la transformacion que situo a la quimica en una posicion destacada entre las ciencias. La voz de los protagonistas permite construir una narracion plural, que a menudo difiere sustancialmente de las versiones elaboradas en el siglo XIX y que todavia mantienen una fuerte presencia en los manuales de ensenanza y en la literatura de divulgacion.