Carving a niche : the medical profession in Mexico, 1800-1870 / Luz María Hernández Sáenz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández Sáenz, Luz María, 1952- author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 47.

McGill-Queen's/Associated medical services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Mexico--History--19th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--Practice--Mexico--History--19th century.

Medical education--Mexico--History--19th century.

Medical education.

History, Modern 1601-.

Education, Medical--history.

Public Health--history.

History.

Medicine--Practice.

Mexico.

Medical Subjects:

History, Modern 1601-.

Education, Medical--history.

Public Health--history.

Mexico.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Summary:

The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of the medical profession. During this tumultuous period of transition, physicians and surgeons merged in an effort to monopolize the field and ensure their professional survival in a postcolonial, liberal republic. Carving a Niche traces the evolution of various medical occupations in Mexico from the end of the colonial period to the beginning of the regime of Porfirio Díaz, demonstrating how competition and collaboration, identity, ever-changing legislation, political instability, and foreign intervention resulted in a complex, gradual, and unique process of medical professionalization - one that neither conformed to theoretical models nor resembled hierarchies found in other parts of the world. Through extensive research, Luz María Hernández Sáenz analyzes the uphill struggle of practitioners to claim their place as public health experts and to provide and control medical education. Highlighting the significance of race, class, gender, and nationality, Carving a Niche demonstrates that in the case of Mexico, liberal reforms praised by traditional works often hindered, rather than promoted, the creation of a modern medical profession and the delivery of quality health care services. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Juntas de Sanidad and the Protomedicato, 1800-1836 31

2 Union and Control: Professional Reorganization and the New Nation, 1800-1860 63

3 The Medical Profession and Public Health, 1831-1872 113

4 Training Future Generations: Medical Education, 1800-1870 155

5 In Search of Recognition: The Establishment of the Academy of Medicine, 1820-1827 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-343) and index.

ISBN:

0773552979

9780773552975

0773553029

9780773553026

OCLC:

1012803857