Abstract

GONZALEZ VALLADARES, Gustavo Jorge; MASSON LOPEZ, Ana del Carmen  and  GONZALEZ MASSON, Adrian. From Behique to Militar Phsician. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2016, vol.45, n.1, pp.107-114. ISSN 0138-6557.

The history of Cuban medicine has traveled through different stages and its origins are sorcerer-healer, also called behique, who was the initiator of the therapeutic procedures in the aboriginal struggles against the invader. This activity was developed under difficult conditions by doctors who participated in the wars of independence as members of the mambí military health corp. This tradition was also present in the doctors of the rebel army. When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, this practice of training increased for those in the military sphere, also using scientific and technological advances in the field of medicine. It is intended to make a journey through history of the health professional formation who participated in the warlike conflicts since its original behique to the present times.

Keywords : healer; behique; medicine; military physician.

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