Imágenes y representaciones de los profesionales de la medicina: entre el público, la ciencia y la prensa. Ciudad de México, 1877-1911

Abstract

The uncertainty and mistrust that the medical profession stirred in Mexico City during the Porfirio Díaz government (1877-1911 ), led medical practitioners and the State to consider that it was essential to strengthen a respectable and competent image of the profession. This article examines sorne of the strategies employed to legitimate the presence of medical men in society. The central hypothesis ofthis work is that the writing ofthe history ofnational medicine, and of its most prominent figures, became an essential element to obtain that.