This article reconstructs the bureaucratic, parliamentary and university initiatives that postulated research in plant genetics as the instrument to provide a scientific response to the sanitary and grain quality difficulties of crops in Argentina, which led to the design of a renewed state policy on sciences applied to production since the early 1...
Only man does science and interprets, with passion, the totality of reality to transform it. Social scientists have a critical attitude and a practical conscience to build an inclusive democratic society, for this it is necessary to investigate and understand the social problems that afflict humanity and its environment. / Solo el hombre hace cienc...
This article attempts to establish a link between some conceptual assumptions behind Truth and Method, by Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Max Weber’s concerning the role of social science. In this sense, it is discussed some of the debates belonging to what can be called “theory of historical knowledge”. Thus, to arrive at the Gadamerian notion of a fusion...
Introduction: The Orthodontics like medical specialty has manifested significant advances in the last two decades that impact of the global thing in the Cuban context and that you interesting turning by the light of the transformations in the exercise of attention to the population in the current Cuban society. Objective: He presents work that is p...
In the social sciences, a classic work is a reference for future generations of specialists who enjoy from its theoretical, analytical and methodological contributions in the development of new research and permanent improvement of knowledge. Among the classics of sociology, in particular the theorists of the emergence phase of this social science,...
Science communication in the press is an old activity; the frictions between scientists and journalists that always have characterized science communication have been overcome since scientists made journalists privileged partners to communicate science. The research proposes to analyze the indications that are embodied in evidence of science commun...
The purpose of the article is to analyze the introduction of the University of Buenos Aires in a global academic network during the first decades of the 20th century. The construction of this network and the role played in it by a series of civil society organizations and associations such as the Institute of the University of Paris in Buenos Aires...
The aim of this article is to present an updated overview of the issue of patents and treatments for COVID-19 and, in particular, vaccines. First, we offer a conceptual clarification of concepts such as patent, vaccine or coronavirus. Secondly, we explain where the debate between intellectual property and health has taken place and, finally, we out...
The famous author of Open Societies and Their Enemies, Karl Popper, allows us, with the theoretical postulates of his critical rationalism, to analyze the tendencies of economic, sociological and political thought that try to implement a “neo corporatism, doubtfully democratic”, in the era of globalization, contrary to one of the theses of the Vien...
Si cierto número de ficciones literarias manifiestan una evidente admiración por el saber médico y el conjunto de las figuras que lo encarnan (médico de cabecera, médico especialista, practicante de medicina alternativa, enfermero), algunos escritores se muestran severos, escépticos incluso ante tales figuras. Es el caso, entre otros, de Mario Bell...
