Social and cultural studies on Natural Sciences and Health.

The aim of this group is to study public health, psychiatry, the natural sciences and evolutionary theory from a historical perspective, highlighting relationships between the natural and social environments of Spain, Western Europe and Latin America. Research is divided into two areas. 1. History of medicine and health, which encompasses three sub-areas: history of psychiatric knowledge and care; medicine, public health, the environment and disease control; social dangers and the urban environment. 2. History of biology, geology and natural history. Sub-areas: environmental history of Europe and Latin America; history of evolutionary theory and Darwinism; history of palaeoanthropology and human evolution; interactions between science and religion; Jouneys and scientific expeditions.