Saber médico y control social en Puebla: el Hospital de San Pedro, 1790-1801

Authors

  • Jesús Márquez Carrillo Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29351/mcyu.v3i4.581

Keywords:

San Pedro Hospital, health policy, modernity, non formal education

Abstract

The present article aims to point out how in Puebla, during the last decade of the XVIII Century, San Pedro Hospital became a project of an educational model of the modernity, by virtue of the deployment of new social control devices related to a new health policy dedicated toward the popular classes. If in preceding times the women’s monasteries were outstanding spaces in the social and cultural reproduction of the elite, by the beginning of the XIX Century, the mentioned institution decided to educate the masses with social and hygienical customs, and trough those devices, they showed the presence of the state.

Author Biography

Jesús Márquez Carrillo, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México

Profesor investigador en el Centro de Estudios Universitarios y Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.

Published

2007-09-21

How to Cite

Márquez Carrillo, J. (2007). Saber médico y control social en Puebla: el Hospital de San Pedro, 1790-1801. Memoria, Conocimiento Y utopía, 3(4), 11–29. https://doi.org/10.29351/mcyu.v3i4.581