Abstract

RAMACCIOTTR, Karina  and  RAYEZ, Federico. Social and Preventive Medicine in Argentina from a Biographical Approach. The Career of Francisco Martone. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2019, n.36, pp.195-218.  Epub May 17, 2019. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n36.74022.

In this article we propose to analyze the professional career of the Argentine physician Francisco José Martone (1909-1998) in order to explore its contributions to preventive and social medicine. The work has been carried out from a qualitative methodology of documentary analysis and from a biographical approach, in dialogue with a stream of research that has been analyzing the professional careers of certain Argentine and Latin American physicians. To meet our objectives we resort to different types of sources: books and articles published by Martone, official documentation, his administrative file at the university and other types of unpublished materials. According to these sources, we were able to reconstruct Martone's university and professional trajectory, his belonging to different legislative committees in the National Congress, his participation in the Peronist administration and his theoretical production relative to the foundations of social medicine and the professionalization of nursing. These contributions, as well as his biography, allow us an intimate approach to the avatars of the field of public health in Argentina in the period from the thirties to the eighties.

Keywords : (Thesaurus) biographies; social medicine; preventive medicine; public health.

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