Medicine, health and hygiene during XIXth century

This essay pretends relate the issue of hygiene to understand how it became a key concept to understand health problems and improve the living conditions of the population of Western countries, including Mexico, since the end of the 18th century and during the 19th century. It starts from understand...

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Autor: Alanís Rufino, Celia Mercedes
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Recursos:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO
Repositorio:Edähi Boletín Científico de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades del ICSHu
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repository.uaeh.edu.mx:article/6320
Acesso em linha:https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/icshu/article/view/6320
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:hygiene
health
diseases
medicine
higiene
salud
enefermedades
medicina
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Resumo:This essay pretends relate the issue of hygiene to understand how it became a key concept to understand health problems and improve the living conditions of the population of Western countries, including Mexico, since the end of the 18th century and during the 19th century. It starts from understanding the medicine and health model that prevailed at that time, to develop the relationship of medicine, health and hygiene from there. After that, it is explained how the dissemination of hygienic precepts was carried out among the population and the role that doctors developed in teaching and disseminating hygiene in order to have a healthier and more vigorous population, as was the ideal of these centuries.