El Pionero de la Médicina Legal en Costa Rica

En este artículo presentamos una semblanza del Dr. Alfonso Acosta Guzmán, médico costarricense formado en Alemania en los a os veinte, quien fue el pionero de la Medicina Legal en Costa Rica y un profesional destacado en muchos otros campos de las ciencias médicas, con cualidades morales y éticas sobresalientes y con una visión a futuro y un espíritu de lucha inclaudicable que contribuyeron signicativamente a forjar la estructura de lo que actualmente es el Organismo de Investigación Judicial y principalmente su Departamento de Medicina Legal. In this paper we present a biography of Alfonso Acosta Guzmán, M.D. He was a costarican physician who studied in Germany at the beginning of the last century. He also was the pioneer of the Forensic Medicine in our country and was a recognized professional in many others fields of medical sciences. He had a lot of ethical qualities and was a visionary of the future of the Legal Medicine in our country. He fighted to build the structure of one of the most prestigious centers of Forensic Medicine in Latin America, the Costa Rican Department of Legal Medicine.