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Carving a NicheThe Medical Profession in Mexico, 1800-1870 |
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The first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.
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 in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
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.
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 in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
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.
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Part of the McGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society (number 47 in series)
376 Pages, 6 x 9
14 tables, 3 illustrations
ISBN 9780773553026
February 2018
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“Carving a Niche is highly engaging and clearly written, bringing new and critical ideas to this topic.” Nora E. Jaffary, Concordia University, and author of Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905
“Hernández Sáenz knows her subject extremely well and has assembled a rich and thorough analysis of the different dimensions of medical professionalization in Mexico.” Adam Warren, University of Washington and author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms
“This welcome contribution to the history of medicine offers a detailed examination of the trajectories of licensed medical practitioners and their efforts to acquire professional, social, and scientific recognition between the 1800s and the 1870s. Hernández Sáenz challenges the traditional and linear interpretations that have characterized the history of medical professionalization in Mexico and offers a novel understanding of both medical and Mexican history during an era that had seldom been the focus of a coherent and encompassing investigation.” Journal of the History of Medicine
"Hernández Sáenz's story is not merely a Mexican history of medicine. It is a medical history of Mexico, a story about how medicine -- in carefully building its nest -- helped create moden Mexico itself." Social History of Medicine
“Carving a Niche is a well-researched account of the transformation of the medical profession during a crucial period in Mexican history. Anyone interested in the medical history of Mexico or Latin America should read this volume.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
“Hernández Sáenz knows her subject extremely well and has assembled a rich and thorough analysis of the different dimensions of medical professionalization in Mexico.” Adam Warren, University of Washington and author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms
“This welcome contribution to the history of medicine offers a detailed examination of the trajectories of licensed medical practitioners and their efforts to acquire professional, social, and scientific recognition between the 1800s and the 1870s. Hernández Sáenz challenges the traditional and linear interpretations that have characterized the history of medical professionalization in Mexico and offers a novel understanding of both medical and Mexican history during an era that had seldom been the focus of a coherent and encompassing investigation.” Journal of the History of Medicine
"Hernández Sáenz's story is not merely a Mexican history of medicine. It is a medical history of Mexico, a story about how medicine -- in carefully building its nest -- helped create moden Mexico itself." Social History of Medicine
“Carving a Niche is a well-researched account of the transformation of the medical profession during a crucial period in Mexican history. Anyone interested in the medical history of Mexico or Latin America should read this volume.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
Luz María Hernández Sáenz is associate professor of history at the University of Western Ontario.
Tables and Figures / xi
Acknowledgments / xiii
List of Terms / xvii
Introduction / 3
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
Conclusion / 261
Notes / 275
Bibliography / 321
Index / 345
Acknowledgments / xiii
List of Terms / xvii
Introduction / 3
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
Conclusion / 261
Notes / 275
Bibliography / 321
Index / 345
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Honorable Mention
CALACS Book Prize
The Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2019
CALACS Book Prize
The Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2019
