Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora as Spanish neurologist (1886-1971).
Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora was born at Madrid in 1886. His recorded nationality is Spain.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
The recorded fields of work are neurology, neuropathology and psychiatry.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Spain matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora died in 1971, aged 85. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: neurology, neuropathology and psychiatry
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