Publications

The first editorial activity of the Research Center on Health, Society, Science and Technology is Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology, a periodical electronic journal in an interactive format publishing papers on Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology.

The journal is supported by several institutions and gathers a prestigious editorial committee. It is peer reviewed by international referees and meets the requirements of periodical publications indexes. The publication is presented in Spanish and English languages, and accepts texts in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French, reaching global impact. Eä publishes three issues a year (April, August, and December). Go to the journal

 

 

Innovation

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology has been created under the Web 2.0 paradigm. This concept was coined by Tim O’Reilly in 2004 in order to refer to a second generation in the history of the Web based on user communities and a special range of services, such as social networks, blogs or wikis, promoting collaboration and an easy information interchange among users (for more information see Web 2.0).

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology is updated permanently, not only by the team of Eä but also by the users, in constant interactivity between them and with the website. This promotes collaboration and an agile interchange of information between those who visit the journal.

 

New developments of Information Technology (IT) are applied in order to accelerate the process of knowledge. This is a publication that attracts its readers every day to make them a relevant piece in the game of the community of ideas.

Mission and Vision

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology aims to be a channel for publications and academic discussions between scholars dedicated to medical humanities and social studies of science and technology worldwide. Our vision is not only to create a journal but to generate an every-day meeting point for those who are interested in those academic fields, gathering them together in the same place and time, in spite of geographical distances.

Defining academic fields

Medical Humanities

The Medical Humanities are academic fields of interdisciplinary nature that connect health and medicine with the humanities (philosophy, ethics, history, and religion), the arts (literature, theatre, visual arts, and music) and social sciences (sociology, anthropology, psychology, politics, economics, law, cultural studies). Humanities and arts provide a perspective about the human condition and an ethical thinking about the responsibility of men to their fellows. They allow us to develop observation, analysis and auto-reflection skills and enable an historical view about medicine and health in their theory and praxis. Social sciences offer an outlook on the connections between the concepts of health, biomedical sciences and technology and with the social environment where they develop.

Disciplines that are often included under this category are history of medicine, bioethics, medical epistemology and scientific research methodology, medical esthetics, medical pedagogy, medical sociology, medical anthropology, economy of health, medical law, health politics, and medical communication, among others.

In other words, Medical Humanities are the disciplines that result from the decision of the humanities of taking the phenomenon of medicine, health, sickness and medical care as a well defined object of study; and from the decision of the biomedical sciences of accepting to be analyzed under the perspective of the humanities, arts and social sciences.

Social Studies of Science and Technology

The Social Studies of Science and Technology are academic fields of interdisciplinary nature. Their object of study is the analysis of social, cultural, political and economical processes related to scientific and technological activities. They conceive science and technology deeply bonded to the social environment where they grow and develop. This outlook does not dissociate science and technology from economics, history, society, culture, philosophy, anthropology, law, and politics.

Activities

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology publishes papers in the fields of medical humanities and social studies of science and technology. Eä has scheduled a periodicity of three issues a year. Since we aspire to academic excellence and reaching global impact, the journal meets the requirements of periodical publications indexes and it is entirely in Spanish and English. Articles submitted for publication are evaluated by prestigious referees, specialized in each field.

Moreover, considering the relevance of images (drawings, paintings, photographs, etc.) for the construction of knowledge, Eä has opened an iconoiathric section (from the Greek, ‘eikon’, image, picture, and ‘iathros’ medicine, physician, treatment). In this section authors will display an original composition of pictures with short explanatory texts. These iconoiathric compositions will be evaluated by referees -same as regular articles-, and will have to be submitted according to the instructions for submitting originals and respect authors’ copyright.

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology gives users the opportunity to share with the community events, publications –books and journals-, links and online resources that they consider of interest for their colleagues. Those who visit the website are able to participate of forums where scholars dedicated to medical humanities and social studies of science and technology meet online, interchange ideas and ask questions to other colleagues.

The objective is that, besides reading and publishing articles, users may be updated - by surfing this website- of what is new worldwide in the previously mentioned areas: meetings and conferences, journals, new books, innovative and useful resources on the Internet, grants and scholarships, research projects, among others. Groups and institutions are permanently invited to publish their activities on our website.

Staff

The journal’s directive team is composed by Professor Jaime Elías Bortz, MD, PhD (Academic Director), Gabriela Mijal Bortz (Editorial Director) and Professor Abel Luis Agüero, MD, PhD (Associated Director). Eä also gathers a prestigious editorial committee, composed by prominent figures in the fields of Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology. Eä has also designated several correspondents in different countries around the world in order to help us promote the journal in their respective places.

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