The origins of Hipolito Unanue’s medical thinking

The enlightenment thinking origins and characteristics in the Spanish metropolis during the XVII and XVIII centuries and its relation with Hipolito Unanue’s (1755-1833) main medical ideas genesis introduced during Peru’s viceroyalty is reviewed. Unanue and his main work “Observations on Lima’s Clima...

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Autor: Salaverry, Oswaldo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/1333
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/1333
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Perú
historia de la medicina
Unanue
Hipólito
educación médica
medicina social
history of medicine
Hipolito
education
medical
social medicine
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Sumario:The enlightenment thinking origins and characteristics in the Spanish metropolis during the XVII and XVIII centuries and its relation with Hipolito Unanue’s (1755-1833) main medical ideas genesis introduced during Peru’s viceroyalty is reviewed. Unanue and his main work “Observations on Lima’s Climate” are integrated in the intellectual tradition of the medical topographies initiated in France and England and that had his first expression in this Peruvian author for all the Spanish Empire. We describe his particular incorporation of the enlightenment ideas to the neohippocratic movement, influencing Peruvian medicine during the XIX century through the first decades of the XX century under the form of ‘Medical Geography’. Finally we point out Unanue’s recognized medical concepts application on medical education reform and his support to the implantation of hygiene measures during the viceroyalty.