2003

Las ciencias sociales y la salud en la modernización de Venezuela

The social sciences have been involved in health programs in Venezuela since the turn of the 20th Century, but their role has been changing as the country has undergone successive transformations and the scientific community has matured. This article analyzes the social sciences’ actions in the medicine/ health field in Venezuela over the course of the 20th Century. Variables relating to the changes and/or transformations occurring in society, the State, and academia were specified, permitting the identification of five phases denoting different styles and ways of conceiving the relationship...

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