Joan Giné I Partagàs

Juan Giné y Partagás (18361903) was a Spanish physician and writer.

Biography

He was born in Pla de Cabra, Tarragona in the year 1836. He graduated in medicine from the University of Barcelona in 1858. In 1862 he received his doctorate from the University of Madrid. He began his professional career as a rural doctor. In 1863 he was appointed as the assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, while settling in Barcelona. In 1866 he moved to Santiago de Compostela, where he became a professor. During his tenure at the University of Barcelona, he held the Chair of Hygiene from 1868 and the surgical clinic from 1871. From 1892 until his death he served as rector at the University of Barcelona. In addition to his teaching activities, Giné i Partagàs had been the director of the Nueva Belén asylum. His first recruitment was in the Gracia neighborhood and later in San Gervasio de Cassolas, in Barcelona.

He had been considered as the introducer of organic psychiatry, of the first Spanish congress of psychiatry in Barcelona in 1883, where national and international specialists attended. A number of his disciples and collaborators formed the first psychiatric school in Spain. He was also considered as a pioneer in the scientific and autonomous field of dermatology, until then linked to surgical pathology. His dermatological theories, derived from the French School of dermatology, were evaluated in a treatise and consequently were published in 1880.

His contribution to the dissemination, through medical journalism, of different scientific currents is considered of great importance. He is among the founders of the Barcelona Medical Institute, the first attempt to implement a free school of medicine. He participated in the writing of ''The Medical Compiler'' and directed the journal ''La Independencia Médica'' (1869). In the year 1881 he also founded ''Revista Frenopática Barcelonesa''.

Notable works

* ''Treatise on rural hygiene'' (1860)
* ''Elementary course on private and public hygiene'' (1871-72)
* ''Treatise on physiopathology'' (1876)
* ''Theoretical-practical essay on phropathic homology and heterology'' (1878)
* ''Journey to Cerebrópolis'' (1884)
* ''The family of the onkos'' (1888)
* ''Mysteries of Madness'' (1890)

Further reading

* Leal Cercós, Carmen, and Carbonell Masiá, Carlos. ''Images of Spanish Psychiatry''. Spain, Glosa.
* ''Revista de estudios hispánicos''. United States, University of Alabama Press, 2006.
* ''Bibliography of the History of Medicine''. United States, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1970.
* Carbonell, Carlos, and Garrabé, Jean. ''Anthology of Spanish Psychiatric Texts''. Germany, Wiley, 2008.
* National Library of Medicine Catalog: Subjects. United States, Rowman and Littlefield, 1966.
* ''Photography in Clinical Medicine''. Germany, Springer International Publishing, 2020.
* ''Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis''. United States, William and Wood, 1884.
* ''The Modern Spain Sourcebook: A Cultural History from 1600 to the Present''. India, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
* Fuentes Peris, Teresa. ''Visions of Filth: Deviancy and Social Control in the Novels of Galdós''. United Kingdom, Liverpool University Press, 2003.

References

External links

Joan Giné i Partegàs
at WorldCat

Joan Giné i Partegàs
at Real Academia de la Historia

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gine i Partagas, Joan
Spanish physicians
Spanish writers
1836 births
1903 deaths
People from Tarragona