Rosa M Medina-Doménech

Biographic Data

ID9294912
NAMERosa M Medina-Doménech
GIVEN NAMESRosa M
FAMILY NAMEMedina-Doménech
SIGNATUREMEDINA-DOMÉNECH R M
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad de Granada
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX0

  • A “tale of two countries”

    Open AccessAlina Danet, Rosa María Medina Doménech et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2015

    In this article we explore how the Spanish written press – ABC, La Vanguardia, and Blanco y Negro – and the official newsreel No-Do, created and disseminated a narrative about heart transplantations at the end of the 1960s. We consider how Franco’s regime used Christiaan Barnard’s heart transplants to legitimize the Spanish dictatorship and as a means of signifying scientific progress, modernization and national pride. The Spanish press created t…

  • Cinematic representations of medical technologies in the Spanish official newsreel, 1943–1970

    Open AccessRosa María Medina Doménech, Rosa M Medina-Doménech et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2005

    NO-DO, the Spanish official newsreel produced by Franco's dictatorship (1939–1975), held a 30-year monopoly over audio-visual information in Spain from 1943 to 1975. This paper reports on an analysis of the coverage of medical technologies by the Spanish Cinematic Newsreel Service, NO-DO, from 1943 to 1970. The study focuses on the changing roles played by cultural representations of medical technologies deployed in NO-DO. Our analysis shows how …