Una discusión sobre el vínculo entre Salvador Allende, Max Westenh?fer y Rudolf Virchow: aportes a la historia de la medicina social chilena e internacional*

摘要

In the history of Latin American social medicine, numerous works have presented a harmonious link between Rudolf Virchow, Max Westenh?fer, and Salvador Allende, which establishes the origin of ideas of Latin American social medicine in a prestigious European source, represented by Virchow. A key to that story is that Allende was a student of Westenh?fer, a disciple of Virchow who lived in Chile three times (1908-1911, 1929-1932, and 1948-1957). Based on primary sources and contextual data, this article problematizes the relationship between Allende and Westenh?fer, and questions the influence of Virchow in Chilean social medicine.