History of Anatomy in Chile, The Beginnings/Historia de la Anatomía en Chile. Los Inicios

• Published in: International journal of morphology 2017-09, Vol.35 (3), p.958
• Main Author: Valenzuela, Julio Luis Cardenas
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Subjects: Orrego Luco, Augusto
• ISSN: 0717-9367

Reviewing the universal development of anatomy to provide a general context, the present work seeks to gather the historical events of the beginnings of anatomical studies in Chile and their description according to the different periods of history, from Prehispanic Chile to the mid-period of The Conservative Republic, evidencing the difficult beginnings, the scarce elements that characterized it and the initial informality to later move on to an established institutionality along with the country's independence. Therefore, it is possible to note that the discipline has been influenced not only at a scientific level, and by the development of new technologies, but also internal and external political events that influenced the development of this discipline over the years. The present description therefore comprises the first five periods of our history and beginnings of the sixth as a nation, from the description of some anatomical knowledge of the native peoples present in the region before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors during the Period of the Conquest and ending with the description of the beginnings of the institutional teaching of Anatomy at the National Institute, indicating transcendental events of our history as a discipline, prior to the birth of the teaching of anatomy at the Universidad de Chile, the first University to teach anatomy in our country. KEY WORDS: History; Anatomy; Teaching anatomy. Revisando el desarrollo universal de la anatomia para dar un contexto general, el presente trabajo pretende reunir los antecedentes historicos de los inicios de los estudios anatomicos en Chile y su descripcion segun los distintos periodos de la historia, desde el Chile Prehispanico hasta la mitad del periodo de La Republica Conservadora, evidenciando los dificiles comienzos, los escasos elementos que lo caracterizaron y su informalidad inicial para pasar posteriormnte a una institucionalidad establecida de la mano de la independencia del pais.. Por ello, es posible ver la influencia que sobre la ensenanza de la disciplina tiene no solo el avance cientifico y el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologias, sino tambien como las influencias politicas tanto internas como externas influyeron en el desarrollo de la disciplina a traves de los anos. La presente descripcion por tanto comprende los primeros cinco periodos de nuestra historia e inicios del sexto como nacion, desde la descripcion de algunos conocimientos anatomicos de los pueblos originarios present