title: [A century of teaching research and medico-legal assistance in Iaşi].
abstract: On September 15, 1982, the Medico-Legal Department of the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iaşi will celebrate one hundred years of activity reflected in the instruction of a great number of generations of physicians, forensic physicians and lawyers to say nothing of the remarkable services brought to the Courts of Law and public medical assistance in Moldavia. The organization of university and medical education in Iaşi had to face implicitly the problem of teaching forensic medicine. This subject was tought for the first time in 1860 at the Faculty of Law of the "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iaşi by I. Ciurea. He started teaching forensic medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in 1882. Professor I. Ciurea was specially sent abroad on the purpose of "studying medicine applied to Law". This stage of evolvement and development of the medico-legal studies in Iaşi is associated today with the names of I. Ciurea, George Bogdan, Gr. T. Popa and N. Bălan. Through their activity, publications and genuine scholarship they succeeded in founding a real scientific school of forensic medicine in Iaşi. At the some time they asserted this subject both on the national and international level. An outstanding stage in the development of the forensic medicine in Iaşi was its increasing application to questions of civil and 'criminal law, especially in court proceedings. This stage is brilliantly represented through the teaching, scientific activity and medico-legal assistance given by M. Kernbach. Nowadays we are actively implied in a new stage of development of the forensic studies. This is the period of the epistemological affirmation of the forensic medicine in Iaşi. Its main task is the elaboration of epistemological models for the majority of the law questions which require the rigour of scientific truth. New discoveries have been made in keeping with the natural progress of forensic medicine in all its branches. Within the process of elaboration of new and more reliable criteria of judgement, all knowledge acquired was epistemologically systematized. The one hundred years of medico-legal teaching at the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iaşi signifies in fact more things at the same time: 170 years since the first medico-legal certificate had been emitted in Moldavia; 150 years since the first medico-legal autopsy; 118 years since the organization of the teaching of forensic medicine at the Faculty of Law; 91 years since I. Ciurea's death; 52 years since the death of G. Bogdan; and last but not least, 30 years since the organization of the system of medico-legal assistance in our socialist society. All these events, the remarkable achievements of the past, constitute an impetus to the prospective development of forensic medicine in Iaşi, with the goal of obtaining an ever increasing coefficient of scientific accuracy of the medico-legal act as well as to the permanent contribution of forensic medicine to medical assistance and public sanity.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scripcaru
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