Una preocupación por la seguridad: Jaume Curbet, in memoriam

El documento que se presenta al lector pretende en primer lugar ser un sincero y emocionado acto de agradecimiento a la labor desarrollada durante todos estos años por Jaume Curbet, ahora en la otra orilla de la vida, en materia de seguridad, políticas públicas de seguridad y los nuevos retos ante los que se encuentra la gobernabilidad. Reflexión que toma su punto de partida en esa etapa de nuestro reciente pasado político que es la de la recuperación de las libertades democráticas y las ilusiones y esperanzas que en ese momento emergen, por un lado la democratización de los aparatos de Seguridad en una España que arrastra un largo período de ausencia de libertad y por otro en la implementación de un sistema de seguridad propio para Cataluña. El trabajo finaliza haciendo algunas consideraciones en orden a los nuevos fenómenos de la criminalidad organizada, el terrorismo, la inmigración y el auge del populismo penal, éste último como respuesta fácil y peligrosa ante la nueva situación en la que nos encontramos en estos principios del nuevo milenio, que bien pueden ser definidos como de cierta deriva hacia espacios de menos derechos y más control.

In memoriam: Dr. Francesc Abel i Fabre, SJ.

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy has been impoverished by the loss of Dr. Francesc Abel Fabre, S.J. (1933–2011), one of the founders of bioethics and a long-time member of the Editorial Advisory Board. 2011 brought the death of Dr. Francesc Abel Fabre, S.J., at the age of 78. He was the pioneer of European bioethics. Dr. Abel learned the discipline at Georgetown University, working side by side with the founder and first director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, André Hellegers, as bioethics itself was coming into existence. He went from this experience to establish the Institute Borja of Bioethics in Catalonia in 1976, the first center of bioethics in Spain and in Europe. Through his scholarship and teaching, he established an influential dialogue in bioethics, as well as ethics committees in hospitals and in research centers. In 1986 he joined in founding the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics, an organization in which he was involved and participated for the last 25 years. He contributed crucially to bioethics across the world, especially through the International Study Group on Bioethics (1980–1994). He was widely recognized as an outstanding bioethics expert in Latin America.

Sobre el hombre privado. Homenaje académico In Memoriam al Profesor V.J. Wukmir

Ponencia del Dr. Miquel Mallol Esquefa en el Homenaje académico In Memoriam al Profesor V.J. Wukmir, persona, maestro y científico humanista. Aula Magna Universitat de Barcelona, 24 de mayo del 2006. Mirada a la persona y al científico V.J. Wukmir a partir de su concepto humanista de "hombre privado" como auto construcción compartida: en la persona, en el organismo en la célula. En la ciencia y en el arte. «Compatior, ergo vobiscum sum»

Vicente Cacho Viu (1929-1997), in memoriam

On the occasion of the recent death of the madrilenian culture historian Vicente Cacho Viu, the authors expose the main lines of his historical work. They point out the importance of Cacho's research on the periord of the Restauración, mainly his studies on the liberal education institution Institución Libre de Enseñanza. They also consider Cacho's interest in Catalonia, remembering the time he spent teaching at Barcelona University, paying attention to his works on catalan modernisme. The article includes a systematic bibliography of Cacho's works.

Vicente Cacho Viu (1929-1997), in memoriam

On the occasion of the recent death of the madrilenian culture historian Vicente Cacho Viu, the authors expose the main lines of his historical work. They point out the importance of Cacho's research on the periord of the Restauración, mainly his studies on the liberal education institution Institución Libre de Enseñanza. They also consider Cacho's interest in Catalonia, remembering the time he spent teaching at Barcelona University, paying attention to his works on catalan modernisme. The article includes a systematic bibliography of Cacho's works.

In memoriam. Dr. Oriol de Bolos i Capdevila (1924-2007).

Descendiente de Antoni Bolòs i Ferrussola-farmacéutico botánico que herborizó en varias comarcas catalanas y mantuvo contactos con otros botánicos de su época, especialmente con su suegro Joan Minuart i Parets- y de Francesc Bolòs i Germà-farmacéutico naturalista, autor de trabajos de flora y de geología-, sobrino-nieto de Estanislau Vayreda i Vila, nieto de Ramon de Bolòs i Saderra-los dos últimos, farmacéuticos botánicos, miembros de la escuela de Antoni C. Costa- e hijo de Antoni de Bolòs i Vayreda-farmacéutico botánico, director del Institut Botànic de Barcelona en tiempos difíciles-, Oriol de Bolòs i Capdevila (Olot, 16 de marzo de 1924- Barcelona, 22 de marzo de 2007) siguió-de un modo que podríamos considerar natural, lógico- la tradición científica de su familia de estudio de las plantas, siendo el primero de la saga en ejercerla no a partir de los estudios de farmacia, sino desde los de ciencias naturales....

In memoriam Antonio Prevosti (1919-2011), a pioneer of genetics of natural populations

Prof. Dr. Antonio Prevosti was born on the 15th of February, 1919, at Barcelona where he grew up and lived with his wife Maria Monclús and his family until his death. Between the years 1939 and 1942 he registered at the University of Barcelona and finished his studies there with the"University Degree in Natural Science" obtaining the extraordinary award of his promotion. Immediately afterwards he started his research about the growth rate of Barcelona school children from two very different social groups at the Anthropology Laboratory of the University of Barcelona. The obtained results were published in his Doctoral Thesis (1948). Further investigations on quantitative traits in human populations improved his knowledge of statistical analyses and provided the basis for a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work at the Institute of Statistical and Demographical Sciences in Rome directed by Prof. C. Gini.

Maria Josepa Arnall i Juan, in memoriam

This article reviews the life and career of Dr. Maria Josepa Arnall i Juan (1948-2002), head professor of Historiographic Science and Techniques at the University of Barcelona. Dr. Arnall was distinguished both on a personal and professional level. She performed a magnificent task as a researcher and teacher, and possessed a great work ethic, as evidenced by her rich and rigorous scientific output, described in the article. She played an active role in collaboration with the Archivists Association of Catalonia helping to train Catalan archivists. The memory of her as a person and a professional, as well as her important and valuable work, remain as her legacy