Hermilio Valdizán (November 20, 1885 – December 25, 1929) was a

Peruvian Peruvians (''/peruanas'') are the citizens of Peru. What is now Peru has been inhabited for several millennia by cultures such as the Caral before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 ...

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

who specialized in

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

Works written

* Crime in Peru (1909), a well-documented

essay An essay ( ) is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a Letter (message), letter, a term paper, paper, an article (publishing), article, a pamphlet, and a s ...

which studies the various factors of

crime In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definiti ...

in social groups in Peru, mainly in the Indian race. *

Sexual perversion A paraphilia is an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. It has also been defined as a sexual interest in anything other than a legally consenting human ...

s in the early Peruvians (1911) *

Medical Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

problems of

marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...

(1912) *Psychiatry in Peru (1912) *A Psichiatra of secolo XVI (1913) *The art of the

barber A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse ...

(1913) *Martin de Porres

surgeon In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before spec ...

(1913) *From the past... (1914) *Locos of the colony (1919) *Peruvian

folk medicine Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) refers to the knowledge, skills, and practices rooted in the cultural beliefs of various societies, especially Indigenous groups, used for maintaining health and treatin ...

(1922, in three volumes, in collaboration with Angel Maldonado). *Sick Story (1923),

narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether non-fictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller ...

work. *A collection of the works of Dr. Jose Casimiro Ulloa, in two volumes (1924-1925). *Peruvian

Medical Dictionary A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The four major medical dictionaries in the United States are ''Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions'', ''Stedman's'', ''Taber's'', and Dorland's Medical Diction ...

in six volumes, the first volume being published in 1923. The second volume appeared in 1938, and the rest of the work was published in installments in the Annals of the

Faculty of Medicine A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, professional school, or forms a part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, ...

since 1957. It is a work that brings abundant biographical information, literature, etymology, and medical folk. *Italian Doctors in Peru (1924) *History of the Faculty of Medicine of Lima 1811-1911 (1925, in three volumes). *children Nelida Bardinet (1924) *Dr. Hipólito Unanue (1926). *Notes for Peruvian

medical literature Medical literature is the scientific literature of medicine: articles in journals and texts in books devoted to the field of medicine. Many references to the medical literature include the health care literature generally, including that of denti ...

(1928) *Reforming

medical studies Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practic ...

(1928) *Medical Chronicles (1929) *You, you're father (1934) *History of Peruvian medicine (posthumous, 1944).

References

1885 births 1929 deaths Peruvian psychiatrists {{Peru-med-bio-stub