90 anys del Diccionari de medicina de Manuel Corachan: l’evolució del llenguatge científic català

Exhibition revisiting Manuel Corachan's Diccionario de medicina, a key reference for establishing medical terminology in Catalan, and tracing its evolution up to the present day.

The exhibition, produced and promoted by Oriol Ramis, Ferran Sabaté and Maria del Mar Salazar, traces the history of the Diccionario de medicina promoted by Manuel Corachan. This work helped to consolidate the use of Catalan in the medical and scientific field, and the route presents it as the starting point of a story that reaches the present day. The Clínica Corachan, in Barcelona, hosts the exhibition.

The route shows how medicine, language and the way of explaining health and illness have been changing in parallel. The proposal starts from the idea that a language is also built through science, and focuses both on the transformation of medical knowledge and on the people who have contributed to expressing and disseminating it in Catalan.