UN PORTRET NERETUŞAT AL ANEI ASLAN, DIRECTOAREA INSTITUTULUI NAŢIONAL DE GERIATRIE ŞI GERONTOLOGIE DIN ROMÂNIA (1958 - 1988)
AN UNTOUCHED PORTRAIT OF ANA ASLAN, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS IN ROMANIA (1958 - 1988)

Summary/Abstract: The Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics in Romania was founded in 1952 by Decision of the Council of Ministers and became a National Institute in 1974, and in 1992 it was named „Ana Aslan”. Ana Aslan is considered a pioneer of social medicine. Years after becoming the head of the physiology department at the Institute of Endocrinology from Bucharest, she founded the Institute of Geriatrics in Bucharest. If we want to know what Dr. Ana Aslan understood from the de-Stalinization process launched by Nikita Khrushchev in February 1956 and what the cult of personality meant for the director of the first geriatrics institute established worldwide, we may read a document found at National Archives of Romania. It is a letter that Dr. Ana Aslan wrote on February 24, 1978 and sent to Nicolae Ceausescu, in order to keep Dr. Alexandru Cincă in office at the Institute of Geriatrics.

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