ABSTRACT
RESUMEN Cuba ha demostrado en todas las épocas, la grandeza de sus científicos, los avances y logros realizados por ellos. Ya desde los inicios de 1830 se comenzaba a hablar de adelantos en la oftalmología cubana. Desde ese momento nuestros científicos tenían presente el pensamiento filosófico en función de la investigación científica para lograr una tecnología de punta en la especialidad. Al triunfo de la revolución, en 1959, el desarrollo de la oftalmología era casi desconocido. En el presente siglo los servicios oftalmológicos del país disponen de todo lo indispensable para hacer frente al desafío que se avecina constantemente con la tecnología. La Misión Milagro, el mejor ejemplo del conocido impacto de los avances y prestigio de oftalmología en Cuba y otros países, permite afirmar que esta tecnociencia abarata los tratamientos y la atención a los pacientes con independencia de sus estados económicos. Cuba ha demostrado que no solo el capital monetario es importante para el desarrollo social, pues el capital humano eleva la sociedad a nuevas dimensiones. En esto consiste el impacto político de la población, beneficiada por los avances revolucionarios en la oftalmología cubana (AU).
SUMMARY Through the times, Cuba has showed the greatness of its scientists and their advances and achievements. So early as from the beginning of 1830 there were commentaries on the advances in Cuban Ophthalmology and from those times Cuban scientists put the philosophic thought in function of the scientific research to accede to latest technology in the specialty. At the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, the development of Ophthalmology was almost inexistent, but in the current century the ophthalmological services of the country have the essential to affront the constant challenge of new technologies. The results of Mision Milagro, (Miracle Mission, the program organized by Cuban Government to heal ophthalmologic diseases in other countries like Venezuela, Ecuador and others) allow us to affirm that techno-sciences reduce the costs of the patients' treatment and care regardless of their economic status. Cuba has showed that not only the monetary capital is important for the social development: human capital raises society to new dimensions. That is the political impact on the population benefited by the revolutionary advances in Cuban Ophthalmology (AU).
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Ophthalmology/history , Social Change/history , Technological Development/history , Biomedical Technology/history , Cuba , Professional Training , History of MedicineABSTRACT
Aborda a trajetória de Bio-Manguinhos a partir de sua constituição como unidade integrante do Complexo Fiocruz.
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Academies and Institutes/history , Brazil , Science/history , Technological Development/history , Public Health/historyABSTRACT
O século XX foi cenário da construção de um sistema para a operacionalização da ciência estratégica das grandes potências, chamada Big Science. Este sistema é constituído por uma vasta rede institucional integrada, o "complexo militar-industrial-acadêmico", que desenvolve pesquisas estratégicas e direciona a ciência de ponta. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a lógica desta construção sob a ótica do poder, fazendo um contraponto entre os desenvolvimentos tecnológicos da Física e da Biologia. Os movimentos de poder identificam algumas características que, em tese, refletem o incentivo para indução do desenvolvimento científico da modernidade, potencializado na era atômica com a fabricação de armas de destruição em massa, as armas de alta tecnologia. Nesta perspectiva, buscamos a relevância do desenvolvimento biológico de interesse político-militar, tomando por base a fabricação de três gerações de armas ao longo do século XX, com crescente posicionamento na corrida armamentista. Esta análise envolve as décadas de 1940 até 1980, na busca de demonstrar uma convergência técnico-política nas trajetórias do desenvolvimento biológico e da guerra biológica, que culminou numa conexão científico-militar no início da era biotecnológica.
The XX Century was the scenario for the construction of a system devoted to operationalizing the strategic science of the great potentials named the Big Science. This system comprehends a vast institutional and integrated network, the "military-industrial-academic complex", which carries out strategic research and guides high quality science. The objective of this study was to investigate the logics of such construction under the perspective of power, highlighting a counterpoint between the technological development of Physics and Biology. The power movement points to some characteristics, that theoretically reflect the incentive to the induction of the scientific development of modern times, potentialized during the atomic age by the manufacturing of high technology weapons. In this perspective one can search the relevance of the biological development of political-military interest in the three-generation manufacturing of weapons throughout the XX Century, and the participation in the armaments race. This historiographic analysis encompasses the decades of 1940 through 1980, in an attempt to show the ethnical-political convergence in the paths taken by the biological development and the biological war which eventually led to a scientific and military connection at the beginning of the biotechnological era.