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A pesar de que la política sanitaria reformista fue uno de los pilares de los sucesivos gobiernos de la República, durante la Guerra Civil se tuvo que reorganizar la sanidad para poder atender las necesidades asistenciales derivadas del estado de guerra y miles de profesionales sanitarios tuvieron que dejar sus carreras. Uno de ellos fue Julio Chornet López (1889-1946), ginecólogo y sexólogo, concejal socialista del Ayuntamiento de Valencia (1936-1937) y presidente del sindicato médico de Valencia, adscrito a la UGT. Este libro habla de su vida, recuperada por su nieto con la finalidad de acabar con el silencio y empezar a sanar la memoria. En él se recoge su transformación personal, profesional e ideológica desde su primera militancia hasta su afiliación a la UGT y el PSOE. Su compromiso le supuso, el mismo día de la entrada de las tropas franquistas en Valencia, su detención, encarcelamiento y condena a doce años, así como su depuración profesional por el Colegio de Médicos de Valencia. El 18 de enero de 2023 el Gobierno de España resolvió declarar ilegales e ilegítimos todos los tribunales penales o administrativos que le juzgaron, así como las sentencias y resoluciones dictadas.

Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness'of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows them to constitute a dual clinical-political project that gathered pace over the course of the twentieth century and continues to resonate in the present. Drawing on scholarship across several areas of historical inquiry as well as historical and contemporary clinical literature, the book uses a thematic approach to highlight decisive moments that demonstrate the stakes of this engagement in Anglo-American contexts.By tracing the (unfinished) history of institutions, the search for cures for psychiatric distress, the growing interest of the nation-state in mental health, the history of attempts to globalise psychiatry, the controversies over the politics of diagnostic categories that erupted in the 1960s and 1970s, and the history of theorising about the relationship between the psyche and the market, the book offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of mental health into a commonplace concern.Addressing key questions in the fields of history, medical humanities, and the social sciences, as well as in the psychiatry disciplines themselves, the book is an essential contribution to an ongoing conversation about mental distress and its meanings.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This book uncovers how during the origins of modernity in the nineteenth century the senses were mobilised to sell more, both through the popularisation of objects aimed at the senses (such as panoramas, optical boxes, automatons, music boxes and pianolas), and also through marketing mechanisms (for example, advertising and window dressing). All these novel objects and spaces had one thing in common: the aim of attracting the public by stimulating the senses. By examining practices that mobilised the senses in the emerging fields of advertising, marketing and the leisure industry, and through an approach that involves elements from the history of the senses, visual studies, sound studies and aesthetics, this book explores what this new sensory-driven mass culture was all about. The basis of English translation of this book, originally in Spanish Vidas excitadas. Sensorialidad y capitalismo en la cultura moderna (2022), was facilitated by artificial intelligence. The author, with the support of Lucille Banham, has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.