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Anthropology and “Crisis in Medicine”: The Pathologist M. Kuczynski-Godard (1890--1967) and the Indigenous Peoples of Central Asia and Peru (2009)

Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Volume: 29
Pages: 97--122

Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of special issue: Physicians, Naturalists, and Alterity from the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century
Language: English

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Public health Traditional societies and cultures Health care Anthropology Pathology 20th century Peru Central Asia Kuczynski-Godard, Máxime

This article examines the work of the German-Peruvian physician Max Kuczynski/Máxime Kuczynski-Godard (Berlin 1890-Lima 1967) in rural areas of Central Asia (1924-26) and Peru (1938-48). The main focus of the text is on the scientific approach behind the specific interest of this pathologist in disease and health issues among native populations. Kuczynski's theoretical considerations are analyzed in the context of the wide controversies within the German medical community around a crisis in medicine when he was professor at Berlin University during the interwar years. Accordingly, his determination to leave the laboratory and to shift research and healthcare practice closer to rural populations proves to be the expression of profound epistemological and ethical considerations.

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