Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Addiction (A): Perhaps you could begin by telling us about yourself, where you are from, your family background.How did you become interested in medicine and especially in psychiatry, and what led you to the field of addiction studies?Juan Carlos Negrete (JCN): I was born and raised in the northern Argentinian city of Tucumán.My grandfather Negrete had arrived in Argentina in the 1880s with a medical degree from Madrid, but it did not entitle him to set up a practice.Instead he secured employment as medical officer for the railways.My father was 18 years old when my grandfather died.As the second eldest in a family of seven siblings, he had to start earning a living and was not able to pursue university studies.My mother was a teacher for many years and reached the rank of school Principal.I attended primary school in Tucumán but then was sent to a boarding school in Córdoba, a military academy.My mother must have thought that it would be good for me, although I was not an undisciplined or problem teenager.At the time I went there, this school provided a very good secondary education in the style of the French Lycées; most of the teachers were
Source: Addiction
DOI: 10.1111/add.12053
Author: Juan Carlos Negrete
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2412548818