Félix Martí Ibáñez belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Félix Martí Ibáñez as Spanish physician, psychiatrist, author, and polymath.
Félix Martí Ibáñez was born at Cartagena in 1911. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Institute Jacques Balmes and University of Barcelona.
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 New York University.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Félix Martí Ibáñez died in 1972, aged 61. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at New York University
