Rural Doctors and Social Medicine in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1920-1940)
Health promotion and the prevention of endemic and epidemic diseases were both issues of great interest and urgency once the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution was over. This essay analyzes the reason why preparing a large and heterogenous group of health agents was considered undeferrable in ord...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repository: | Historia Mexicana |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/169 |
| Online Access: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/169 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Mexico medicine agrarian social 20th Century México medicina rural siglo XX |
| Summary: | Health promotion and the prevention of endemic and epidemic diseases were both issues of great interest and urgency once the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution was over. This essay analyzes the reason why preparing a large and heterogenous group of health agents was considered undeferrable in order to identify, describe and assess the medical-social problems and thus offer medical, preventive, and curative attention, as well as to promote education and disseminate health-related messages and dictates in the Mexican countryside. To achieve her objective, the author examines the importance of the postulates of social medicine, the training of rural doctors, and the promotion of preventive medicine, besides turning to the experiences of several doctors and interns in their journeys to the heart of the land, focusing particularly on the contradictions, problems, and limitations faced by them between the 1920's and 1940's. |
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