1. Acercamiento a las nociones e ideas médicas sobre la higiene y el orden hospitalario durante el Porfiriato. El caso del Hospital O´'Horán.
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Mena-Carrillo, Juan José
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MEDICAL hospitals , *HOSPITAL sanitation , *HOSPITAL administration , *HERMENEUTICS - Abstract
Introduction. The development of the medical institution during "El Porfiriato" in Mérida city have been reported and promoted many times as overyly simple chronicles, which has prevented necessary discussions about what medical scientific ideas were behind its conception, and prevented restructuring during this period. In contrast, we propose to address these issues by advancing a "History of the ideas" The Objective of this historical essay is to identify the medical and hygienic ideas that influenced and shaped the Agustin O'Horan Hospital in Mérida during the historic period known as "El Porfiriato", with the goal of encouraging a more critical historical debate about the Agustin O'Horan Hospital. The materials used in this essay come from different origins, including primary sources as archives, newspapers and studies from the period, as well as bibliographical sources, to which we applied the historical methods of Source criticism and interpretation. The conclusion of the work is important, since it identifies the importance of medical ideology in the projection in shaping the new O"Horán Hospital, after its founding in 1906. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012