Resumen

VEGA-MORQUECHO, Ofelia Azucena. Jesús González Ureña and the teaching of dermatology at the Facultad de Altos Estudios of Mexico City, 1918-1923. Tzintzun. Rev. estud. históricos [online]. 2019, n.70, pp.65-85.  Epub 19-Jun-2020. ISSN 2007-963X.

In this paper the chair of dermatology at the Facultad de Altos Estudios from Mexico City, taught from 1918 to 1923 by the prominent doctor Jesús González Urueña, in order to train experts in this area of medicine is analyzed. Much of its activities focused on the study of tinea capitis, a disease of childhood, which at the time was a public health problem.

Palabras llave : history of medicine; history of dermatology; medical education; Facultad de Altos Estudios; Jesús González Urueña.