Abstract

ESPINOSA RODRIGUEZ, Luis Ariel  and  FIGAREDO CURIEL, Francisco Humberto. Obtaining the Cuban vaccine Abdala as a social process, its social conditions. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.1  Epub Apr 15, 2023. ISSN 1727-8120.

The text pays attention to four main social conditions of obtaining the Abdala vaccine as a social process. The first, foundational history, is related to the scientific attitude of the Cuban doctor Tomás Romay y Chacón towards the knowledge and practice of medicine; the second, starting political, has to do with important political decisions taken by the Cuban revolutionary government from 1959 that laid the foundations for public policies on science, technology and innovation; the third, revolutionary education, closer in time, refers to the patriotic-revolutionary education acquired by those who started biotechnology in Cuba, which allowed them to obtain relevant results at the beginning of this field at an international level; the fourth, technological organizational, refers to the innovative organizational forms used to obtain the Abdala vaccine. The general objective pursued is to characterize the aforementioned main determining factors.

Keywords : Cuban Abdala vaccine; social conditioning of scientific activity; Science-Technology and Society.

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