Autonomía y subordinación: los farmacéuticos diplomados y la constitución de un campo médico en Buenos Aires (1852-1880)
The author discusses some aspects of the role played by college educated pharmacists in the emergence of the medical profession as a corporate institution during the so-called Period of National Organization in Argentina's history. The ever-diminishing power of pharmacists in that incorporatin...
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1998
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| Summary: | The author discusses some aspects of the role played by college educated pharmacists in the emergence of the medical profession as a corporate institution during the so-called Period of National Organization in Argentina's history.
The ever-diminishing power of pharmacists in that incorporating process resulted, above all, from the clear heterogeneity that reigned among them as a group, which made impossible that its qualified elite could exclude from the profession those who competed with it commercially: the unqualified pharmacists who rented out their licenses (the regentes de alquiler) and the drugstore owners.
Meanwhile, on the strictly professional front, such elite failed to curb the rising influence of physicians.
Evidence of this failure is that pharmacists were unable to have any control over the Hygiene Board's regulations of their own activities, and that the views of the Pharmaceutical Society on licenses and on qualified employees in drugstors (the dependientes idóneos) proved ineffectual. The best evidence, however, is that the members of Parliament who passed the Art of Healing Regulatory Act of 1877 chose to ignore the pharmacists' most important demands. |
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