Gender, medicalization and power. Feminization in the medical profession because the proletarianization profession
Medical knowledge is for men, other knowledge about health, as biochemistry or nursing can oversee women. This affirmation of common sense is constantly contradicted by the statistics that show that the medical profession is currently exerted mostly by women. We talk about doctors, men, and nurses, women. The association between medical knowledge and power, imposed hegemonically in the nineteenth century, became part of the common sense culturally transmitted and maintains its validity. In a capitalist society, dominated by the market even in the innermost aspects of private life, health, as an ethical value, gave way to health as a mercantile value. We seek to investigate the social conditions of production and correlate the displacement of the medical profession of males towards women with displacement from a high bourgeoisie oligarchic towards a proletariat. From the nineteenth century until today, the medical profession step of being exerted by males and some few women of the dominant elite to be the profession of the middle class accommodated in the first half of the XX until being exerted by professionals who work in piece; at the beginning of the 21st century. We attribute a strong correlation of this gender displacement to class displacement and today the prevalence of women is greater than of males and to differential parenting conditions between boys and girls.
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oai:ojs.cerac.unlpam.edu.ar:article-29652023-11-15T20:36:03Z Gender, medicalization and power. Feminization in the medical profession because the proletarianization profession Género, Medicalización y poder. La feminización en la profesión médica como consecuencia de un proceso de proletarización profesional. Sampayo, Horacio Ricardo gender doctors class human resources workers Género clase médicos recursos humanos trabajadoras Medical knowledge is for men, other knowledge about health, as biochemistry or nursing can oversee women. This affirmation of common sense is constantly contradicted by the statistics that show that the medical profession is currently exerted mostly by women. We talk about doctors, men, and nurses, women. The association between medical knowledge and power, imposed hegemonically in the nineteenth century, became part of the common sense culturally transmitted and maintains its validity. In a capitalist society, dominated by the market even in the innermost aspects of private life, health, as an ethical value, gave way to health as a mercantile value. We seek to investigate the social conditions of production and correlate the displacement of the medical profession of males towards women with displacement from a high bourgeoisie oligarchic towards a proletariat. From the nineteenth century until today, the medical profession step of being exerted by males and some few women of the dominant elite to be the profession of the middle class accommodated in the first half of the XX until being exerted by professionals who work in piece; at the beginning of the 21st century. We attribute a strong correlation of this gender displacement to class displacement and today the prevalence of women is greater than of males and to differential parenting conditions between boys and girls. El saber médico es cosa de hombres, otros saberes sobre salud, como bioquímica o enfermería pueden estar a cargo de mujeres. Esta afirmación del sentido común es contradicha permanentemente por las estadísticas que muestran que en la actualidad la profesión médica es ejercida mayoritariamente por mujeres. En lenguaje cotidiano hablamos de los médicos y las enfermeras. La asociación entre saber médico y poder, impuesta hegemónicamente en el S XIX, se convirtió en parte del sentido común culturalmente trasmitido y mantiene su vigencia. En una sociedad capitalista, dominada por el mercado hasta en los aspectos más íntimos de la vida privada, la salud, como valor ético, dio paso a la salud como valor mercantil. Desde el siglo XIX hasta hoy, la profesión médica paso de ser ejercida por varones y algunas pocas mujeres de la élite dominante a ser la profesión de la clase media acomodada en la primera mitad del XX hasta ser ejercida por profesionales proletarizados que trabajan a destajo a principios del XXI. Hoy es mayor la prevalencia de mujeres que de varones. Atribuimos una fuerte correlación de este desplazamiento de género al desplazamiento de clase y a condiciones diferenciales de crianza entre niños y niñas. Universidad Nacional de La Pampa 2019-08-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf text/html https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/aljaba/article/view/2965 La Aljaba. Segunda Época. Revista de Estudios de la Mujer; Vol. 22 (2018) 1669-5704 0328-6169 spa https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/aljaba/article/view/2965/4071 https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/aljaba/article/view/2965/4470 Derechos de autor 2019 La Aljaba. Segunda Época. Revista de Estudios de la Mujer |
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Medical knowledge is for men, other knowledge about health, as biochemistry or nursing can oversee women. This affirmation of common sense is constantly contradicted by the statistics that show that the medical profession is currently exerted mostly by women. We talk about doctors, men, and nurses, women. The association between medical knowledge and power, imposed hegemonically in the nineteenth century, became part of the common sense culturally transmitted and maintains its validity. In a capitalist society, dominated by the market even in the innermost aspects of private life, health, as an ethical value, gave way to health as a mercantile value.
We seek to investigate the social conditions of production and correlate the displacement of the medical profession of males towards women with displacement from a high bourgeoisie oligarchic towards a proletariat.
From the nineteenth century until today, the medical profession step of being exerted by males and some few women of the dominant elite to be the profession of the middle class accommodated in the first half of the XX until being exerted by professionals who work in piece; at the beginning of the 21st century. We attribute a strong correlation of this gender displacement to class displacement and today the prevalence of women is greater than of males and to differential parenting conditions between boys and girls. |
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