Article ID: CBB001320246

Una perspectiva heterodoxa de la historia de los medicamentos. Dinámicas de inclusión-exclusión de los sueros antituberculosos Ravetllat-Pla en la España del primer tercio del Siglo XX (2013)

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Lugo-Márquez, Sara (Author)


Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Volume: 33
Pages: 93-118


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Translated title: [A heterodox perspective on the history of drugs. Inclusion-exclusion dynamics of the Ravetllat-Pla anti-tuberculosis serum in the first third of the 20th century]. Part of a special section: Conocimiento y prácticas científicas en los procesos de inclusión-exclusión.

In 1924, a historically peak time for tuberculosis in Spain, the Ravetllat-Pla Institute was established with the aim of producing and commercializing an anti-tuberculosis serum and researching the variability of the bacteria implicated in this infection. This bacterial form, proposed by Joaquim Ravetllat in the first decade of the 20th century, led to the formulation of a new etiological-pathologic theory of tuberculosis, which upheld the drugs produced by the Institute and was considered heterodox by the official science of the time. The Catalan medical and political network established a space of exclusion leading to the marginalization of the Institute, which, by strengthening its heterodox identity, generated another space of inclusion. In this space, its refuted scientific theory could be socially legitimated and validated through the commercial success of its pharmaceutical products. In this paper, we suggest that the consideration of medicines as commercial products illustrates the active participation of the different users of the Ravetllat-Pla serum in its social construction, re-conceptualization and legitimization. Moreover, from the theoretical framework of inclusion-exclusion dynamics, this research contributes to understanding the processes of knowledge legitimatization by scientific heterodoxy.

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Article Molero-Mesa, Jorge; Jiménez-Lucena, Isabel (2013) (Des)legitimando jerarquías sociales, profesionales y cognitivas. Conocimiento y prácticas científicas en los procesos de inclusión-exclusión. Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam (p. 13). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hawgood, Barbara J.
Giménez-Roldán, Santiago
Morales-Asín, F.
Ferrer, Isidre
Dwyer, Michael
Thomas Goetz
Concepts
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Bacteriology
Vaccines; vaccination
Public health
Tuberculosis
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Spain
India
United States
Ireland
Great Britain
England
Institutions
Boston City Hospital
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Harvard University
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