{"id":2480,"date":"2024-11-11T09:58:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T09:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josepmcomelles.com\/josep-m-comelles-biografia\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:32:20","slug":"josep-m-comelles-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/josepmcomelles.com\/en\/josep-m-comelles-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I was born in Barcelona in 1949. I still had a ration card. I lived in Barcelona until 1980 and since then I have lived in Creixell, facing the blue sea. I got to know the sad and dirty Barcelona of the post-war period that I escaped by reading unrepentantly or with marathon double-program sessions in the neighborhood cinemas. I studied medicine and also literature and through the twists and turns of life I have had a long academic professional career as a medical anthropologist and historian of science. On the threshold of my retirement, in 2015, I already knew that a blog could be an interesting tool to freely explain what came to my mind without locking it in academic corsets, I also knew that the enthusiasm acquired in relation to cinema in my cinephile adolescence, I could now put it into practice. From here you can find the vast majority of what I have written for more than half a century, if it pleases you, and the visual documents that I enjoy.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/academia_comelles.svg\" alt=\"Academia JM Comelles\"><\/p>\n<h3>Academia<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/independent.academia.edu\/JComelles\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/google_scholar_comelles.svg\" alt=\"Google shcolar JM Comelles\"><\/p>\n<h3>Google shcolar<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.es\/citations?view_op=list_works&#038;hl=ca&#038;user=NaYM8S8AAAAJ\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/orcid_comelles.svg\" alt=\"Orcid JM Comelles\"><\/p>\n<h3>Orcid<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0064-364X\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/research_gate_comelles.svg\" alt=\"Research Gate JM Comelles\"><\/p>\n<h3>Research Gate JM Comelles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Josep-Comelles-2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/vimeo_comelles.svg\" alt=\"Vimeo JM Comelles\"><\/p>\n<h3>Vimeo<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/josepmcomelles\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!-- {\"type\":\"layout\",\"children\":[{\"type\":\"section\",\"props\":{\"header_transparent\":true,\"header_transparent_noplaceholder\":true,\"height\":\"viewport\",\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"padding\":\"none\",\"preserve_color\":false,\"style\":\"default\",\"title_breakpoint\":\"xl\",\"title_position\":\"top-left\",\"title_rotation\":\"left\",\"vertical_align\":\"middle\",\"width\":\"\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"row\",\"children\":[{\"type\":\"column\",\"props\":{\"image\":\"wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/comelles_perfil_2.jpg\",\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"image_size\":\"cover\",\"padding\":\"none\",\"position_sticky\":\"section\",\"position_sticky_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"text_color\":\"dark\",\"vertical_align\":\"middle\",\"width_medium\":\"1-2\"}},{\"type\":\"column\",\"props\":{\"image_loading\":true,\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"image_size\":\"cover\",\"order_first\":\"m\",\"padding\":\"large\",\"position_sticky_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"style\":\"card-default\",\"vertical_align\":\"middle\",\"width_medium\":\"1-2\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"I was born in Barcelona in 1949. 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