The labour doctor in Colombia in the 1920s and 1930s
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2015v7n13p85Keywords:
doctor's job, medical profession, healing arts, history of medicine, ColombiaAbstract
This article is one of the results of historical research on the history of the status of the medical profession and the professionalization of medicine in Colombia in the early twentieth century. In a previous publication we had specified many aspects of this problem for the period 1880-1920. This article presents a new advance of the research, corresponding to the period 1920-1940. It emphasizes the working conditions and legal situation of the so-called "permitted physicians", whom we will also call professional physicians, and who were characterized by practicing allopathic medicine without having a university degree. The main hypothesis of this study is that the understanding of the historical processes of professionalization of medicine, of standardization of the medical art and of the implementation of a medical-scientific monopoly in Colombia would present a very partial and incomplete vision if the problem of doctors without a degree is not analyzed, a notable phenomenon, spread throughout almost the entire territory of the nation and of very long duration. For this study, a documentary sample was used consisting of files from the Central Board of Medical Titles, classified in the “Teguas” collection of the General Archive of the Nation of Colombia (AGN).
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