• Rebeca Vargas-Olmos and Martha E Rodríguez-Pérez.
• Program for Master's Degree and Doctorate in Medical, Dental and Health Sciences, Field of knowledge: Humanities in Health, Disciplinary field: History of Health Sciences.
• Gac Med Mex. 2023 Jan 1; 159 (5): 398404398-404.

BackgroundIn 1944, the call for the construction of "La Raza" Hospital in Mexico City was launched. The project included the proposal to create two murals, and the artists who were invited to participate were Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, who, with their work, bore testimony to the advent of modern medicine and the construction of the social security model in force in Mexico.ObjectiveTo determine how mural art is historically linked to medicine in Mexico and how they complement each other, considering two works carried out at the same time and in the same hospital.Material And MethodsAnalysis of the historical context and iconographic and iconological analysis of "La Raza" Hospital murals.ResultsIt was possible to clarify the relationship of the artists with medicine and the role murals play within the modern vision of medicine.ConclusionsMural art is intertwined with medicine because it bears witness to the advent of the construction of the social security model currently in force in Mexico, since hospitals became social achievements of the State and were to be known as symbols of welfare and modernity in Mexico.Copyright: © 2023 Permanyer.

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