Zapata CMA

Language: Spanish
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Cinema is a very valuable resource to undertake reflections on different aspects of science. For example, bioethics has found in certain medically oriented cinematographic productions a pathway to analyze ethical implications of certain situations that might occur in a given clinical practice. Meanwhile, Science and Technology Social Studies have focused their attention on films where, in one way or another, science is present; this is undertaken with the aim of understanding beliefs and attitudes exhibited by society towards science. Communicators, however, target the potential inherent to cinema shows to accessibly transmit to the lay public practical or theoretical aspects of the scientific world.

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