Henry Sigerist and José Joaquín Izquierdo: Two Attitudes towards the History of Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Through the correspondence of the historians Henry Sigerist and José Joaquín Izquierdo between 1937 and 1957, this paper seeks to make an interpretation of the history of medicine. It presents brief biographical data and an analysis of these two attitudes regarding history, in order to identify thei...

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Autores: Castañeda López, Gabriela, Rodríguez de Romo, Ana Cecilia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Historia Mexicana
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/1622
Acceso en línea:https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/1622
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mexico
Henry Sigerist
José Joaquín Izquierdo
medicine
epistles
20th Century
México
medicina
epístolas
siglo XX
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Sumario:Through the correspondence of the historians Henry Sigerist and José Joaquín Izquierdo between 1937 and 1957, this paper seeks to make an interpretation of the history of medicine. It presents brief biographical data and an analysis of these two attitudes regarding history, in order to identify their relevance and impact on the development of the history of medicine, which had reached certain degree of professionalization in the United States and was barely giving its first steps in Mexico. The authors  also comment  on the correspondence and analyze each historian's viewpoint, thus revealing that despite their different place of origin, they shared certain educational traits and a common interest: the consolidation of the history of medicine as a field in itself.