Pedro Laín Entralgo became a member of what organization or association in May 1946?
Pedro Laín Entralgo Pedro Laín Entralgo ( 15 February 1908 – 5 June 2001 ) was a Spanish physician , historian , author and philosopher . He worked , fundamentally , on medical history and anthropology . Biography . He was born in Urrea de Gaén ( Teruel , Spain ) in 1908 . He obtained the degrees of Medicine and Chemical Sciences in the Central University of Madrid , and PhD in Medicine with the dissertation : El problema de las relaciones entre la medicina y la historia ( The problem of the relationships between medicine and history . In the context of the Spanish Civil postwar period , he became an important member of the intellectual circle of the Falange . In 1942 he obtained the first chair of History of Medicine in the country , at the Central University of Madrid . In 1951 , during the period of Joaquín Ruiz-Jiménez as Ministry of education , he became rector of the institution , creating a circle of certain political openness . He was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy , the Royal National Academy of Medicine and of the Royal Academy of History . He obtained the Prince of Asturias award for Communication and Humanities in 1989 and was awarded with the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize in 1991 . Philosophical work . His work is very varied and extensive . Regarding his historical-medical work , his works on medicine in classical Greece , his history and theory of clinical history and his works on Santiago Ramón y Cajal stand out . In addition , he coordinated a monumental Historia Universal de la Medicina ( 1972-1975 ) ( Universal History of Medicine ) , in which not only all the Spanish specialists participated , but also renowned foreign historians of medicine . He published several books on philosophical anthropology in which he analyzed the profound nature of the human being and the current history and theory of the problem of body and soul . Disciples . He was able to attract a good number of physicians around him who began to professionalize the History of Medicine ( and , later , of science ) in Spain . They stand out , among them , Luis S . Granjel ( 1920-2014 ) , professor at the University of Salamanca , José María López Piñero ( 1933-2010 ) in Valencia , Juan Antonio Paniagua Arellano ( 1920-2010 ) in Navarra and Agustín Albarracín Teulón ( 1922-2001 ) and Diego Gracia Guillén ( born in 1941 ) , at the Complutense University of Madrid . Books . - Reconciliar España . Editorial Triacastela . 2010 . . - Escritos sobre Cajal . Editorial Triacastela . 2010 . . - España como problema . Galaxia Gutenberg ; Círculo de Lectores . 2006 . . - El médico y el enfermo . Editorial Triacastela . 2003 . . - Qué es el hombre : evolución y sentido de la vida . Círculo de Lectores . 1999 . . ( Premio Internacional de Ensayo Jovellanos ) . - Historia universal de la medicina . Masson . 1998 . . - El problema de ser cristiano . Círculo de Lectores . 1998 . . - Idea del hombre . Círculo de Lectores . 1997 . . - Alma , cuerpo , persona . Galaxia Gutenberg . 1997 . . - La Generación del 98 . Espasa-Colección Austral . 1997 ( 2ª edición ) . . - Ser y conducta del hombre . Espasa-Calpe . 1996 . . - Cuerpo y alma . Estructura dinámica del cuerpo humano . Espasa-Calpe . 1996 . . - Creer , esperar , amar . Galaxia Gutenberg ; Círculo de Lectores . 1993 . . - El cuerpo humano . Teoría actual . Espasa-Universidad . 1989 . . - Teoría y realidad del otro . Alianza . 1988 . . - La medicina actual . Seminarios y ediciones s.a . 1973 . - Sobre la amistad . Espasa-Calpe . 1972 . - La espera y la esperanza . Historia y teoría del esperar humano . Revista de Occidente . 1957 . - Historia de la Medicina ( Medicina moderna y contemporánea ) . Científico Médica . 1954 . - Los valores morales del Nacionalsindicalismo . Editora Nacional . 1941 . References . - Andrés-Gallego , José ( 1997 ) . ¿Fascismo o Estado católico? : Ideología , religión y censura en la España de Franco , 1937-1941 . Madrid : Encuentro . - Bowen , Wayne H . ( 2009 ) . «Spanish Pilgrimages to Hitlers Germany : Emissaries of the New Order» . The Historian 71 ( 2 ) : 258–279 . . . - Balaguer Perigüell , Emili ( 2002 ) . «Don Pedro Laín Entralgo , in memoriam» . Dynamis . Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam ( 22 ) : 509–514 . . - Gracia Guillén , Diego ( 2010 ) . Voluntad de comprensión : la aventura intelectual de Pedro Laín Entralgo . Triacastela ( Madrid ) / Instituto de Estudios Turolenses ( Teruel ) . . - López Piñero , José María ( 2005 ) . Pedro Laín Entralgo y la Historiografía Médica . Real Academia de la Historia . . - Morente Valero , Francisco ( 2011 ) . «Más allá del páramo . La historia de los intelectuales durante el franquismo» . En : Carmen Frías , José Luis Ledesma y Javier Rodrigo ( Eds. ) . Reevaluaciones . Historias locales y miradas globales . Actas del VII Congreso de Historia Local de Aragón ( Zaragoza : Institución Fernando el Católico ) : 41–76 . . - Pasamar Alzuria , Gonzalo ; Peiró Martín , Ignacio ( 2002 ) . Diccionario Akal de Historiadores españoles contemporáneos . Tres Cantos : Ediciones AKAL . p . 348 . . - Pedrós , Ramón ( 18 de julio de 1976 ) . «Laín Entralgo : descargo de conciencia» . ABC ( Madrid ) : 30 . - Redondo , Gonzalo ( 1993 ) . Historia de la Iglesia en España , 1931-1939 : La Guerra Civil , 1936-1939 . Ediciones Rialp . . - Redondo Martínez , César ( 2004 ) . Origen , constitución y destino del hombre según Pedro Laín Entralgo . I.T . San Ildefonso . . - Rodríguez Puértolas , Julio ( 2008 ) . Historia de la literatura fascista española I . Akal . External links . - Pedro Lain Entralgo in Prince of Asturias website - Pedro Lain Entralgo