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EDUMECENTRO

versión On-line ISSN 2077-2874

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RUIZ HERNANDEZ, José Ramón  y  RUIZ GONZALEZ, Lilian Esther. Health representatives from Villaclara in the First Regional Medical Congress of the Island of Cuba. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.3, pp.5-21.  Epub 30-Sep-2021. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background:

Villa Clara's public health has a rich history that allows us to meet prominent professionals in the different branches of medical sciences. The existence of these figures during the colonial period laid the foundations for scientific development in the territory.

Objective:

to review the life stories of the main figures of Villa Clara medicine who participated in the First Regional Medical Congress of the Island of Cuba in 1890 and their contributions to the public health of the territory.

Methods:

a historical documentary research was carried out during 2019; theoretical methods were used, supported by the interaction of the historical and the logical and from the temporal and spatial dimensions; and empirical ones: documentary analysis and interviews with key informants; information was methodologically contrasted to arrive at integrative considerations.

Results:

important figures of medicine were identified in Villa Clara who participated in the First Regional Medical Congress of the Island of Cuba: Joaquín Albarrán Domínguez, Enrique López Veitía, Pedro Albarrán Domínguez, Agustín Wenceslao Reyes Zamora and Francisco Rodríguez Hernández, Fernando Plazaola, Agustín Abril and Letamendis, Domingo Lagomasino Álvarez and López Silvero. Their life histories were compiled identifying their main contributions to Cuban public health, and their influence on Villa Clara society in the 19th century.

Conclusions:

Villa Clara had an important participation in the First Regional Medical Congress of the Island of Cuba in 1890. The doctors who attended this event left an important legacy that should be known by the new generations.

Palabras clave : history of medicine; life history traits; education, medical.

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