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Revista Cubana de Salud Pública

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AMARO CANO, María del Carmen. Jose Lopez Sanchez, a member of the 30's Generation, a communist, an internationalist and a medical historian. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.3, pp.372-382. ISSN 0864-3466.

Jose Lopez Sanchez (1911-2004). Since 1925 he participated in revolutionary actions and became a member of the 30's Generation. He was militant of the Cuban Communist party, an international brigade member, political commissioner and war correspondent during the Spanish civil war and also medical historian. At the triumph of the revolution in 1961, he held the post of public health vice-minister, managed to re-open the Medical History department and created “Carlos J. Finlay” historical museum of sciences. As a historian of sciences, he has extensive bibliography of which outstanding books are “Vida y obra del médico habanero Tomás Romay y Chacón” and “Finlay y la verdad cientifica”. He was ambassador to India and Switzerland and Director of Documentation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His valuable work in the field of historical research of sciences deserved the award of Honor Member of the Union of Historians of Cuba and of the Latin American Society of Sciences and Technology History, Emeritus Researcher of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, the National Prize of Social Sciences 1999 and the Order of Scientific Merit “Carlos J. Finlay”. The Academy also recognized his teaching work as professor of medical history and he was awarded as Emeritus Professor of the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana.

Palavras-chave : the 1930's Generation; communist and international brigade member; medical historian.

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