title: [Saints in medicine during the great wars of the twentieth century].
abstract: In the political and social context of World War periods and unstoppable technological advances, health professionals in the early twentieth century tried to orientate the practice of medicine towards a modern anthropological concept close to the biomedical perspective, which defends the dignity of a person. Threatened by the risks represented by collectivism and the meanness of the prevailing repressive governments, a personal struggle for the defense of life aroused, which was socially expressed by the advent of bioethics, psychoanalytic theories and the concept that environment has an important role in peoples health and welfare. And above all, the appearance of a paradoxical claim of religious ideals as support of science in times of overall crisis.
authors.affiliation: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Argentina.
authors.forename: María Agustina
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.affiliation: Servicio Clínica Médica, Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Bárbara C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Finn
authors.affiliation: Servicio Clínica Médica, Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Julio E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bruetman
authors.affiliation: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Argentina.
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D018597:Saints / Q000266:history*; D047828:World War I; D047789:World War II