Teaching preventive medicine in a clinical setting. San Francisco de Borja Hospital 1963-1973

Abstract

This paper attempts to understand the experience of integrated medicine clinics, between the years 1963 and 1973 in San Francisco de Borja Hospital. The analysis seeks to know its contents, its theoretical framework, its participants, their background and some of its possible implications for public health today. As an introduction to the study it conducted a partial review of the links between history and public health in the American context and an overview on historiographic controversy caused by “linguistic turn” and the tensions between memory and history. This review is the subject matter of another paper.