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FERNANDEZ-SANCHEZ, Eduardo. Development of pharmaceutical sciences: its dialectic expression in Cuba. Rev Cubana Farm [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2988.

The different periods of the development of science are analyzed, making emphasis on the pharmaceutical sciences in particular. It is exposed how the pharmaceutical practice in the XIX century left its social usefulness to become a trading activity that gave rise in XX century to the appearance of transnational consortia, which influenced on the least developed countries and in their university institutions. The universities began to depend on the dominating economies, which at the same time conditioned a level corresponding to the classist interests. The appearance of the university teaching in Cuba before 1959, which was not an exception to the rest of Latin America, was dealt with. Serious transformations in the University of Havana were praised, starting from the introduction of the new Cuban social project

Palavras-chave : University; society; teaching; marxist dialectics; pharmaceutical sciences; pharmaceutical industry; monopolies; transnationals; mercantilism.