La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América.
Generally explained by the association between precision and instrument, the instrumental dominion of medicine in actual days is assumed as a natural and necessary destiny. Placed in the practices of Mexican physicians of the XIX century, I discuss this naturalized image of medical instruments. Taki...
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| description | Generally explained by the association between precision and instrument, the instrumental dominion of medicine in actual days is assumed as a natural and necessary destiny. Placed in the practices of Mexican physicians of the XIX century, I discuss this naturalized image of medical instruments. Taking as a case the Sphygmograph, device recorder of the cardiac pulse, I interrogate the reasons of the massive import of instruments from the European markets. I have found that the political search for affirming normality and civilization of the Mexican population encircle an epistemological dimension; the instruments are revealed as appliances of knowledge and objects of consumption, in this case, of the colonial market, which hierarchies determined how in this side of America medical doctors were creating knowledge and instruments importing Europe’s instruments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf33fe6afd3d4c35b7f8f00766c547662024-02-14T16:51:32ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522006-12-0110.4000/nuevomundo.3092La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América.Laura CházaroGenerally explained by the association between precision and instrument, the instrumental dominion of medicine in actual days is assumed as a natural and necessary destiny. Placed in the practices of Mexican physicians of the XIX century, I discuss this naturalized image of medical instruments. Taking as a case the Sphygmograph, device recorder of the cardiac pulse, I interrogate the reasons of the massive import of instruments from the European markets. I have found that the political search for affirming normality and civilization of the Mexican population encircle an epistemological dimension; the instruments are revealed as appliances of knowledge and objects of consumption, in this case, of the colonial market, which hierarchies determined how in this side of America medical doctors were creating knowledge and instruments importing Europe’s instruments.https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/3092sphygmographsmedical instrumentsmaterial cultureself recording instrumentsinstruments makers |
| spellingShingle | Laura Cházaro La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América. Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos sphygmographs medical instruments material culture self recording instruments instruments makers |
| title | La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América. |
| title_full | La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América. |
| title_fullStr | La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América. |
| title_full_unstemmed | La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América. |
| title_short | La cultura médica instrumental: los viajes políticos de los esfigmógrafos entre Europa y América. |
| title_sort | la cultura medica instrumental los viajes politicos de los esfigmografos entre europa y america |
| topic | sphygmographs medical instruments material culture self recording instruments instruments makers |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/3092 |
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