Medicine, health and hygiene during XIXth century
This essay pretends relate the issue of hygiene to understand how it became a key concept to understand health problems and improve the living conditions of the population of Western countries, including Mexico, since the end of the 18th century and during the 19th century. It starts from understand...
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| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Estado: | Published version |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UAEH |
| Repositorio: | Edähi Boletín Científico de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades del ICSHu |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repository.uaeh.edu.mx:article/6320 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/icshu/article/view/6320 |
| Nivel de acceso: | Acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | hygiene health diseases medicine higiene salud enefermedades medicina |
| Sumario: | This essay pretends relate the issue of hygiene to understand how it became a key concept to understand health problems and improve the living conditions of the population of Western countries, including Mexico, since the end of the 18th century and during the 19th century. It starts from understanding the medicine and health model that prevailed at that time, to develop the relationship of medicine, health and hygiene from there. After that, it is explained how the dissemination of hygienic precepts was carried out among the population and the role that doctors developed in teaching and disseminating hygiene in order to have a healthier and more vigorous population, as was the ideal of these centuries. |
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