Hugo Pesce
Hugo Pesce Pescetto (17 June 1900 – 26 July 1969[1]) was a Peruvian physician and left-wing activist, intellectual and philosopher.
Medical work
Pesce was born in
Apurímac Region in 1940. The 1948 World Leprosy Congress in Havana endorsed the Latin-American strategy; Pesce was later a member of the World Health Organization's expert committee on the disease.[1] In 1945 he joined the faculty of the National University of San Marcos, where he was professor of tropical medicine from 1953 till his retirement in 1967.[1] In 2002, Pesce was among four individuals and two groups named as "Heroes of public health in Peru".[1]
Political activism
Pesce joined the Peruvian Communist Party founded in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui.[2] In 1929, Pesce and Julio Portocarrero were unsuccessful in promoting Mariátegui's ideas in Buenos Aires at a convention of Latin American communists. Che Guevara recounts in The Motorcycle Diaries that he first read Marx in 1951 while working in Pesce's leprosarium.[3] In the film adaptation, Pesce was played by Gustavo Bueno. Pesce was also a writer and polemicist, and became Vice-President of the Peruvian Association of Writers and Artists.[1]
References
- ^ ISSN 1726-4634. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-521-52331-8. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
- ISBN 978-1-85984-066-5. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
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