Abstract

CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, Javier; RIOS CABRERA, María Margarita  and  MARQUEZ GARCIA, Erick Abelardo. Self-surgery in individuals with medical education: a review of six cases. Acta méd centro [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.2, pp. 415-422.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 2709-7927.

Self-surgery constitutes a very infrequent modality of health self-care. The aim of this article was to present the cases of six personalities with medical training who performed eight self-surgeries between the 19th and 20th centuries. In the cases in which it was possible, additional information of interest about them was offered. Self-surgery in people with medical education is always an extraordinary achievement, generally performed by young individuals motivated by scientific curiosity or by the survival necessity when there is no accessibility to health services. A review of the national and international multilingual bibliography on this subject and on the history of medicine was carried out. The bibliographic search included printed and digital literature consisting of books and biomedical journals, newspapers, encyclopedias and websites.

Keywords : self-surgery, self-amputation; self-assistance; self-appendectomy; self-experimentation.

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