title: [The Bernardino Álvarez Farm Hospital and Farm School: antecedents to Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía].
abstract: By 1960, México's Manicomio General (General Asylum) could no longer fulfill the functions for which it was created so implementation of the so-called Castañeda Operation began, an initiative designed to close down and relocate psychiatric patients to other institutions. At that time, Dr. Manuel Velasco-Suárez was in charge of the General Direction of Neurology, Mental Health and Rehabilitation, and planned to create the Institute of Neurology on a site he already possessed for its construction. The Asylum was a dependency of the aforementioned Direction and Velasco- Suárez decided that some patients at the Castañeda could be moved to the old hacienda house that stood on that terrain. Thus was born the Bernardino Álvarez Farm Hospital. A year later, in 1961, the Farm School for the Weak-Minded, also named Bernardino Álvarez was established there as well. This paper examines the history of these two institutions as antecedents to the Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Historia de la Medicina, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez.
authors.forename: Ana Cecilia
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-de Romo
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Castañeda-López
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history*; D004519:Education, Special / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy; D008800:Mexico; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000266:history; D012574:Schools / Q000266:history