The empty cradle: fragment of the life of a fighter for the argentine pediatric

Abstract

This paper pays tribute to a pioneer of the Argentinean Pediatrics, Dr, Ricardo Gutiérrez, founder of the Buenos Aires Children’s Hospital whose name carries at present. This mark of respect is made by analyzing the film La cuna vacía (The Empty Cradle), which homage him during 1949. Exceeding the nationalist and social context of its premiere, this simple and slightly sweetened version of Gutiérrez’s fragment of life may be now rescued, in critical axiological moments in our country, because of its didactic and motivational nature and especially because of its build-up-values stimulation during health sciences undergraduate and graduate education.

Keywords

• cuna
• ricardo gutiérrez
• pediatría
• argentina.