Raúl
Velasco Morgado

Raúl Velasco is a Professor of the History of Medicine and Science at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Salamanca. He holds a PhD in Medicine (History of Medicine) and is a medical specialist in Pediatrics and in Family and Community Medicine. He trained as a medical historian at the University of Salamanca and has served as an honorary collaborator in the History of Science area at the University of Valladolid, as well as a visiting researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Twentieth Century at the University of Coimbra. His main lines of research include: the history of anatomy; the history of embryology, generation, and reproduction; the molecularization of contemporary biomedicine (especially of pediatric pathology); and the visual culture of science. Additionally, in his most recent competitive research projects, he has focused on the history of rare diseases, the circulation of knowledge about them, and their spaces of research and care. Among other works, he is the author of the monograph Embriología en la periferia: las ciencias del desarrollo en la II República y el Franquismo (CSIC, 2016). He is a member of the recognized research group Iberrara (the Spanish-Portuguese Research Group on the History of Polio, Post-Polio Syndrome, and Neglected Diseases) at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies of the University of Salamanca. He currently also serves as the Academic Director for Teaching and Quality at the University of Salamanca and as Secretary of the Spanish Society for the History of Medicine.