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En este artículo se profundizó sobre la vida del médico Gerardo Ignacio Acosta Peñalver que laboró en el poblado de San José de los Ramos y en el Hospital Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy de Colón, con el objetivo de destacar su entrega y consagración a la medicina; y de esta manera, rendirle un merecido homenaje. Se abordaron aspectos de su vida y obra; se destacó su superación constante principalmente en la especialidad de Medicina interna y el ejemplo inolvidable en sus familiares (AU).
The life of the doctor Gerardo Ignacio Acosta Peñalver Hospital was treated in this article. He worked in the village of San Jose de los Ramos and in the Hospital ¨Mario Muñoz Monroy¨ of Colon. The aim was highlighting his devotion and consecration to medicine, and that way rendering him a well-deserved homage. Several aspects of his life and work were approached: his constant upgrading mainly in the specialty of Internal Medicine and his unforgettable example to his relatives (AU).
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Humans , Male , History, 20th Century , Hospitals, Urban/history , Biography , Internal Medicine/historyABSTRACT
This study is about the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph in New Orleans' Charity Hospital during the years between 1834 and 1860. The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph was founded in 1809 by Saint Elizabeth Ann Bailey Seton (first native-born North American canonized in 1975) in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Seton's Sisters of Charity was the first community for religious women to be established in the United States and was later incorporated with the French Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in 1850. A call to work in New Orleans' Charity Hospital in the 1830s meant a significant achievement for the Sisters of Charity, since it was the second oldest continuously operating public hospitals in the United States until 2005, bearing the same name over the decades. In 1834, Sister Regina Smith and other sisters were officially called to Charity Hospital, in order to supersede the existing "nurses, attendants, and servants," and take a complete charge of the internal management of the Charity Hospital. The existing scholarship on the history of hospitals and Catholic nursing has not integrated the concrete stories of the Sisters of Charity into the broader histories of institutionalized medicine, gender, and religion. Along with a variety of primary sources, this study primarily relies on the Charity Hospital History Folder stored at the Daughters of Charity West Center Province Archives. Located in the "Queen city of the South," Charity Hospital was the center of the southern medical profession and the world's fair of people and diseases. Charity Hospital provided the sisters with a unique situation that religion and medicine became intertwined. The Sisters, as nurses, constructed a new atmosphere of caring for patients and even their families inside and outside the hospital, and built their own separate space within the hospital walls. As hospital managers, the Sisters of Charity were put in complete charge of the hospital, which was never seen in other hospitals. By wearing a distinctive religious garment, they eschewed female dependence and sexuality. As medical and religious attendants at the sick wards, the sisters played a vital role in preparing the patients for a "good death" as well as spiritual wellness. By waging their own war on the Protestant influences, the sisters did their best to build their own sacred place in caring for sick bodies and saving souls. Through the research on the Sisters of Charity at Charity Hospital, this study ultimately sheds light on the ways in which a nineteenth-century southern hospital functioned as a unique environment for the recovery of wellness of the body and soul, shaped and envisioned by the Catholic sister-nurses' gender and religious identities.
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Catholicism , Charities/history , History, 19th Century , Hospitals, Religious/history , Hospitals, Urban/history , New OrleansABSTRACT
En el presente trabajo hacemos una breve referencia sobre la historia del Hospital de Caridad Santa Isabel , en la Ciudad de Cárdenas, que fue una de las primeras instituciones públicas en brindar atención médica gratuita a los pobladores de la ciudad y extender sus servicios en la primera década del siglo XX a los poblados de Hato Nuevo, Recreo y Cimarrones, actualmente Martí, Máximo Gómez y Carlos Rojas. El estado ruinoso de la instalación y la construcción de un nuevo hospital son factores que hacen posible su desaparición a casi cien años de su fundación. La información del Dr Antonio María Béguez César y la foto del hospital forman parte del programa ramal Santiago de Cuba-Matanzas y fueron suministradas por la Lic María Antonia Peña Sánchez del Centro de Información de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba, institución ejecutora principal del proyecto titulado: estrategia para incrementar la visibilidad del descubrimiento científico del pediatra Dr Antonio Béguez César.
In this work we make a short review on the history of the Charity Hospital Santa Isabel, in the municipality of Cardenas, the unique hospitalary institution giving health service to an extended territory covering not only Cardenas, but also Hato Nuevo, Recreo and Cimarrones, currently Martí, Máximo Gómez, and Carlos Rojas, during the first decade of the XX century. This hospital disappeared in the 50 th. Nowadays, the Red Square of Cardenas arises on its place.