Cuentos de vacaciones: La literatura de ficción de Santiago Ramón y Cajal

SantiagoRamón y Cajal, father of neuroscience, won the Nobel Prize in Medicinein 1906 for his neural theory. Besides being a great histologist,researcher, and teacher, he showed interest in photography,philosophy, astronomy, chess, and hypnosis. He wrote very relevantscientific and biographical works as well as his Vacationstories. Five science fiction tales, five short stories with aneducational purpose that mix scientific concepts, fiction, and someirony, and where microscopy and microbiology are always present. Thesestories raise difficult social or moral dilemmas that are oftenmotivated by advances in science or an incorrect scientific educationof the population. Cajal sought to improve that education and banishfalse beliefs andsuperstitions.