Breaking the boundaries of professional regulation: medical licensing, foreign influence, and the consolidation of homeopathy in Mexico
Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos
; 26(4): 1243-1262, out.-dez. 2019.
Artigo
em Inglês
| HISA - História da Saúde
| ID: his-44247
Biblioteca responsável:
BR1273.1
Localização: BR1273.1
RESUMO
As doctors sought state support to regulate professional training and practice after Independence, Mexicans also developed different attitudes toward foreign ideas, influences, and professionals. Leveraging the allure of the foreign among Mexicans, homeopaths strategically used work, products, and organizations from abroad to establish their practices and fight changing professional policies in the country that threatened homeopathic institutions. Homeopaths inhabited the blurry and shifting boundary between professional and lay medical practice during the early Republican period, the Porfiriato, and the post-revolutionary era, and used the ambivalent feelings about medical licensing, and foreign influence in Mexican society to consolidate their position
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Bases de dados temática
Base de dados:
HISA - História da Saúde
Assunto principal:
Prática Profissional
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História da Homeopatia
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História da Medicina
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México
País/Região como assunto:
México
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Southwestern University/Estados Unidos