La visión social en la obra de Marcelino Ramírez García (1864-1940)Veterinario militar y Médico

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Marcelino Ramírez García [Bergasa (La Rioja) 1864 - Logroño 1940] was a military veterinarian and doctor of outstanding scientific level. He dedicated his work to tuberculosis, both in animal and human pathology, and in the relationship between them. He was an integral healthier in the fight against that scourge that has been called "The White Plague" and against the animal and human ravages of the glanders in the Army. His most notable publications, always in a comprehensive health framework were his doctoral thesis of 1907, entitled Tuberculosis from the point of view of its reciprocal transmission between animals and man, which he published in 1908, as Tuberculosis from the point of sanitary, economic and sociological view. Already here he pointed out his net social vision of the problem; and the book, of 1912, Tuberculindiagnosis and Tuberculintherapy. They are also noteworthy his works, of 1916, Diagnosis and specific therapies of glanders in Army cattle, and from 1926, Childhood Ptysiology. In 1924 he synthesized his social ideas at work: Social insurance against tuberculosis, a subject in which he was an advanced. He always was aligned with the most advanced scientific research and laboratory trends, in the state of science at the time, being a convinced contagionist, against those who defended the preponderant role of inheritance in the transmission of tuberculosis. He maintained a constant interest in the social coverage of the disease for the poor and children, as well as the hygienic-sanitary conditions of livestock and livestock facilities; a global vision of health as something inherent in the animal-human binomial. At the time he received recognition from the scientific community, with different awards for his veterinary and medical, civil and military activities.