The difficult experience of being patient or at least trying... The services of medical attention in the Hospital de las Mercedes and in the Public Assistance. Tucumán at the dawn of the 20th century

Authors

  • María Cecilia Gargiulo Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales Universidad Nacional de Tucumán Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v0.n12.22709

Keywords:

the sick, public health, physicians, demand

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the possibilities and conditions of access to public health among the working classes in Tucuman during the 19th and 20th C. We take a tax system based approach of the socio-cultural history of sickness, through which we aim at disclosing the sick’s struggle for access to healthcare professionals, as well as their complaints and demands on poor treatments and deficient medical attention at public institutions. The focus is on the city’s main hospital (Padilla Hospital since 1912), where we analyze the problematic doctorpatient relationships, the serious building limitations and deficiencies, and how the low budget destined to clothes and nourishment made hospitalization a traumatic experience. We point out the role of the press as the channel through which these demands were passed, and which we deem a manifestation of the social status of the lower classes.

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Author Biography

María Cecilia Gargiulo, Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales Universidad Nacional de Tucumán Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

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Published

2012-12-01

How to Cite

Gargiulo, M. C. (2012). The difficult experience of being patient or at least trying. The services of medical attention in the Hospital de las Mercedes and in the Public Assistance. Tucumán at the dawn of the 20th century. Anuario Del Centro De Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti, (12), 187–203. https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v0.n12.22709

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Studies