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- Title
Máxime "Max" Kuczyński: Father of Peruvian Public Health and of the 66th President of Peru.
- Authors
Salgado, Fernanda; Schwartz, Robert A.
- Abstract
Máxime Kuczyński (1890–1967), a medical pioneer born in Poland, was renowned for his work in tropical medicine in the Peruvian jungle, especially on Bartonella baciliformis, the cutaneous form known as verruga peruana of deadly Oroya fever. His unique university training in anthropology, philosophy, and parasitology lead to a participatory observational method of practicing medicine. At the request of the Peruvian President, he ventured into the Peruvian Amazon in 1936 to establish a public health service in partnership with indigenous populations. In June 2016, his son Pedro Pablo Kuczyński, a former Prime Minister of Peru, was elected the 66th President of Peru.
- Subjects
POLAND; PUBLIC health; TROPICAL medicine; VERRUGA peruana; PARASITOLOGY; INDIGENOUS peoples
- Publication
Dermatologic Therapy, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 6, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1396-0296
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dth.12703