Title
From claude bernard to telÉmaco battistini: Experimental medicine in the birth of the scientific journal of the Peruvian national institute of health
Other title
De claude bernard a telémaco battistini: La medicina experimental en el nacimiento de la revista científica del instituto nacional de salud del Perú
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Abstract
The Peruvian Journal of Experimental Medicine and Public Health (RPMESP) was first published in 1942 under the name Journal of Experimental Medicine. Since then, it has been the official scientific dissemination vehicle of the Peruvian National Institute of Health, which was founded in 1936. Telémaco Battistini Sánchez was directly involved in both historical events. Based on some passages of his personal history and on the historical juncture of global and Latin American science between 1865 and 1950, we can understand why the term “experimental medicine” is used in the name of said journal. The aim of this article is to describe a series of events in the history of science which started off in Europe and continued in Peru and triggered the decision to give the name ‘Journal of Experimental Medicine’ to a journal that since its inception has published observational studies—more so in recent decades—, especially in the field of public health, while the number of publications of studies in experimental medicine has drastically decreased.
Start page
530
End page
534
Volume
36
Issue
3
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85075256121
PubMed ID
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
Sponsor(s)
Los acontecimientos históricos ocurridos en la comunidad científica peruana entre 1890 y 1930 definieron muchos hechos actuales, entre ellos, el nombre que adoptó la revista científica del Instituto Nacional de Salud. Lo ocurrido en el Perú no fue más que una adopción tardía de una corriente de pensamiento científico nacida en Francia en 1865, gracias a la contribución universal de Claude Bernard. La intervención de los Estados Unidos a través de la Fundación Rockefeller.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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