About

Dr Juan M. Zaragoza graduated in Philosophy and Information Sciences at the University of Murcia in 2006. Afterwards he studied for a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2012. His thesis, entitled “Terminal patients as an interactive kind: Incurable patients in Spain (1850-1955)” was developed at the Spanish National Research Council’s Institute of Philosophy, at the Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences. He was a visiting scholar at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine (London, 2009), the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University (2010), and the Centre for the History of The Emotions at Queen Mary University of London (2011). His main research areas include the history of medicine from the patients’ point of view (in the 19th and early 20th centuries); the material culture of experience; and the history of care. He is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, working on a research project entitled “Material cultures of care and emotion in Britain and Spain, 1890-1940”.