Carlos Chagas Filho practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Carlos Chagas Filho as Brazilian physician and biologist (1910–2000).
Carlos Chagas Filho was born at Rio de Janeiro in 1910. His recorded nationality is Brazil. He trained at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: National Order of Scientific Merit and Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1982).
That the work was done from Brazil matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Carlos Chagas Filho died in 2000, aged 90. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- National Order of Scientific Merit
- Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise — 1982
- Held posts at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
