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Humanidades Médicas
versión On-line ISSN 1727-8120
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MARTINEZ SUAREZ, Nereyda y GRACIA MARTINEZ, Madelyn. Politics, Science, Ethics and Society: their dialectical conjunction in the experience of the "CONTINGENT HENRY REEVE". Rev Hum Med [online]. 2006, vol.6, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1727-8120.
This investigation is centred in the characterization of the professional activity of the International Medical Contingent Henry Reeves'', specialized in disaster situations and serius epidemics, taking into account, its own social and historical nature, its professional acting as a part of the Cuban Revolutionary Society, as well as its international repercussion. For this reason a theorical study was carried out, based on the application of the historical methods of analysis and synthesis of documental sources. This study is allowed to observe that the medical services are not only a matter of scientific formation, its is a matter of policy and humanist formation. Science, ethics and society constitute a historical unit that settles a qualitative type of policy, for that reason the present and future formation of doctors and professionals of medicine should be based in the necessities of the people who live in the country side, villages and marginal neighbourhoods and the poors of the cities of the Third World, consolidating the necessary human values of these professionals. The members of the Henry Reeves' Contingent have a mastery of deep scientific knowledge and political strength, high human values and unmistakable ethical principles, demonstrated through these years of Revolution by means of the attention to our people, carrying out international missions and the medical collaboration in more than 100 countries
Palabras clave : SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL [history].