Abstract

KVITKO, Luis Alberto. Antecedentes históricos de la valoración del daño corporal y baremos. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.1, pp.57-84. ISSN 2215-5287.

The following article presents a historical journey of the corporal damage evaluation, beginning on the time prior to hand writting and until the present day. Corporal damage evaluation is an important tool when in a State of Rights, where the need of measuring the diverse types of physical o psycological traumas in labour issues o penal maters, become an escential subjet of knowledge for Forensic and General practitioners. Starting out from de premise that the best way to inmerse into a descipline is by knowing its origins, the present review was done in a way that we can approach the subject from its beginnings, the motivations of its creation and the final purpose it acomplishes in the present civilized society.

Keywords : Corporal damage evaluation; measurement scales; Forensic Medicine; Work Medicine (ocupational health profesional); damage; labour issues; penal issues; history; medicine history.

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