Breaking the boundaries of professional regulation

Medical licensing, foreign influence, and the consolidation of homeopathy in Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID3073363
AuthorsJethro Hernández Berrones (0000-0001-8785-0312, Southwestern University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume26
Issue4
Pages1243-1262
Publication date2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702019000400014
PMID31800840
OpenAlexW2990513179
SCIELO_PIDS0104-59702019000401243
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

As doctors sought state support to regulate professional training and practice after Independence, Mexicans also developed different attitudes toward foreign ideas, influences, and professionals. Leveraging the allure of the foreign among Mexicans, homeopaths strategically used work, products, and organizations from abroad to establish their practices and fight changing professional policies in the country that threatened homeopathic institutions. Homeopaths inhabited the blurry and shifting boundary between professional and lay medical practice during the early Republican period, the Porfiriato, and the post-revolutionary era, and used the ambivalent feelings about medical licensing, and foreign influence in Mexican society to consolidate their position

Alternative medicine · Ambivalence · Business · Consolidation (business) · Feeling · Homeopathy · Independence (probability theory) · Political science · Historical Medical Research and Treatments · Medicine · Medicine and Dermatology Studies History · Psychology · Social Psychology