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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Luz MarÃa Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico 1800-1870" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018)
Description: In Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico 1800-1870 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), Luz MarÃa Hernández Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico.In the nineteenth century, medical practitioners sought to earn scientific and professional recognition both at home an internationally, and in doing so, they created institutions that shaped their profession, and sought to establish a monopoly in the realm of public health.Hernández Sáenz places this story in an international context and demonstrates the importance of the French model i...