Laboratory medicine and the identity change of veterinary medicine in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century
| Autor: | José Manuel Gutiérrez García |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Veterinary medicine
Laboratorio España Medical laboratory Microbiologia Context (language use) Modernization theory Microbiología Microbiology Ideal (ethics) Segle XX History and Philosophy of Science Health care Medicine Espanya Medicina veterinaria Identity change Laboratori business.industry Prestige 20th century General Medicine Spain Elite business Siglo XX Laboratories Medicina veterinària |
| Zdroj: | Dynamis v.30 2010 SciELO España. Revistas Científicas Españolas de Ciencias de la Salud instname Dynamis, Volume: 30, Pages: 239-260, Published: 2010 Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam; Vol. 30 (2010); p. 239-260 |
| Popis: | This paper analyses the impact of laboratory medicine on veterinary medicine in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century. It is considered from a perspective that places the laboratory at the centre of a strategy for introducing the ideal of progress into veterinary medicine at a sensitive moment in its history. In the adverse context created by the steady replacement of horses —the principal recipients of veterinary care— by motor vehicles, an awareness grew that the time had come to reinvent the profession. The arrival of experimental veterinary medicine, especially the area linked to bacteriological laboratories, opened the door to explore new prospects for the future and became one of the bases for the discipline’s modernisation. A new professional was envisaged to attain this objective, the «scientific laboratory veterinarian», whose knowledge would be based on experimentation and who would master highly specialised technical skills. This vision of a profession in search of prestige would bring to light conflicting interests among the different healthcare professions and would emphasise the importance of adopting patterns of behaviour that led to identification of these new veterinary surgeons with the elite of society. HUM2006-12278-C03-03 Spanish Ministry of Education and Science |
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