Edited and coordinated books

Juan R. Coca and Rodríguez, Claudio J. (Eds). Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid. Biosocial World: Biosemiotics and Biosociology; Vol. 1, 2023

Abstract: Approaches to Biosemiotics is the first issue in the Biosocial World collection, and contains a series of articles on what biosemiotics does, how it does it and what its long-term objectives may be. As a more specialized discipline in the boundaries of linguistics, the biosociology, the philosophy of biology and the sciences, we hope to offer a point of entry into the world of biosemiotics through articles that deal with general topics from within the field. Our aim is, thus, to contribute to the biosemiotic landscape by opening a door to its recurring themes, problems and descriptions.

Juan R. Coca, Juan A. Roche Cárcel (Eds), Ediciones de la Catarata, 2022.

An approach to the possible origin of creativities and the conditions that allow them to emerge and develop.

Abstract: Research on the subject of creativity is emerging both in the social sciences and in the pure sciences. This book traces its possible origin, and for this purpose it delves into the biological (brain, body), psychological (traumas, illnesses and means of healing) and socio-cultural (mythical, religious, philosophical, scientific, economic, educational...) sources that allow creative personalities, cultures, societies, science itself and civilisations to emerge and develop. The aspects that condition human creativity itself are also taken into account, and the "false creativities" are also identified. The idea, in short, is to show, from an interdisciplinary approach, the complex prism of what sustains the creative phenomenon. Because creativity - like human life itself - is called to transcend the limits, perimeters and frontiers existing between apparently opposite poles, such as the sacred and the profane, the free and the normative, or the economic and the political.

Enfermedades raras. Contribuciones a la investigación social y biomédica

Juan R. Coca (coord.). CEASGA, 2019. Illness and Society, 1. In spanish.

ISBN: 978-84-949321-3-7

Abstract: Low prevalence diseases have become one of the new social challenges. Social research cannot ignore this reality and must confront this complex social and biomedical environment. The social context of rare diseases is complex because of the large number of diseases that fall into this large box of low prevalence diseases, the diversity of symptoms and effects, the lack of treatments, the problems in diagnosis, the complexity of the molecular interactions in our organism, the psychosocial consequences, the social and educational impact, etc. This paper aims to shed light on some of these aspects.

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