Este artículo aborda el proceso de profesionalización de la odontología en Argentina, a partir de fines del siglo XIX hasta 1940, desde una perspectiva de construcción social e histórica. El análisis permite identificar el peso de diversos actores y dimensiones, principalmente la incorporación de la enseñanza de la odontología en las universidades del país, las conflictivas relaciones con otras ocupaciones y profesiones del campo, en especial con los médicos, con los mecánicos dentales, con ejercientes irregulares (barberos, sangradores ) y con el estado. Se indaga en las estrategias gremiales, políticas y académicas desarrolladas desde distintas instancias para obtener la delimitación de un espacio de intervención exclusiva. Además, puede verificarse en la documentación revisada, el peso de la tradición artesanal y mercantil de la práctica odontológica, la escasa participación colectiva en el ámbito gremial y el débil compromiso con la salud pública.
Focusing on the period from the close of the 19th century to the 1930s, the article reveals the interplay between the establishment of a particular field of knowledge--in this case, dentistry--and regulatory legislation in Argentina. The analysis explores professional associations and their relations with degree-granting institutions, the regulation of dental practice, and the social and legal legitimization of the field. Emphasizing issues of social construction, the article examines sociological, anthropological, and historical aspects of the process of professionalization and endeavors to identify the actors and models of knowledge involved. Above all, the article looks at the dynamics entailed in defining an area that had to overcome obstacles to gain monopoly of a practice. In so doing, other health-care practitioners were shut out while relations between the medical field and the State were governed by ambivalence.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.