[Itinerant physicians, the art of healing and doctors in national history (Mexico City, 1877-1911)].
The uncertainty and mistrust towards the presence and activities of academic medical practitioners in Mexico City during the Porfirio Díaz government (1877-1911) convinced these professionals that is was essential to create, strengthen and transmit a respectable, competent and homogeneous image of the profession. To this purpose they recovered, recreated and adapted the ethical maxims of the occidental medical culture to their professional work, and rescued eminent medical figures of Mexico's convulse nineteenth century from being lost in the oblivion of history. Their goal - as it will be expounded in the following pages - was to respond, oppose and neutralize the criticism and disbelief expressed by the public against their professional performance.
Agostoni
Claudia
C
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México DF, México. agostoni@servidor.unam.mx
D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008800:Mexico; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D014504:Urban Health