MERCANTILE HOUSES AND CHEMISTS. APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEDICAL MARKETPLACE IN URBAN CHILE, 1860-1910

Authors

  • María José Correa Gómez Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35588/hc1mw027

Keywords:

Medical market, Chemists, Medicalization, Urban Chile

Abstract

This article presents the Chilean medical  marketplace from the late nineteenth and  early twentieth centuries. Firstly, it examines  the relationship between medicalization and  commerce. Secondly, it shows some features  of the urban medical marketplace through  the international trade, the retail trade and the  celebration of industrial production. It analyses  the growth of the medical market and the  diversification of therapeutics objects, and related  them to the medicalization and urbanization  processes of Chilean society.  

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— Updated on 2024-12-13

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Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2014): Medicine and society: an approach to the hygienic tensions of modernity. Chile, 1850-1950

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Central Dossier

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MERCANTILE HOUSES AND CHEMISTS. APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEDICAL MARKETPLACE IN URBAN CHILE, 1860-1910. (2024). Revista De Historia Social Y De Las Mentalidades, 18(1), 9-33. https://doi.org/10.35588/hc1mw027