2004, Number S1
The biomedical investigation in Mexico
Pérez-Tamayo R
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 37-42
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ABSTRACT
Biomedical research as a professional specialty developed in the Wester World in the following four stages: 1) primitive medicine based on magico-religious concepts; 2) hippocratic medicine (500 AD), which renounced supernatural ideas on disease; 3) scientific medicine (1543), which eschewed tradition and authority, and 4) finally in 1813, the first full-time professional biomedical investigator Claude Bernard was appointed in France. Notheless, the first full-time professional biomedical investigator in Mexico did not appear until 1939, and the number is still growing despite present restrictions to investigator growth and development.