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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2023

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El desarrollo de la ciencia durante el siglo XIX está asociado con valores liberales de educación, libertad individual y humanitarismo. Como afirma Paul Weindling, estos valores se incorporan a la medicina a la vez que ésta se desarrolla como profesión científica con la tarea humanitaria de aliviar el sufrimiento. La salud del individuo y de la familia se ven como las bases de la prosperidad y del bienestar personal de cualquier sociedad civilizada y productiva: una sociedad progresiva y educada sostenida por el libre comercio y el progreso industrial y tecnológico. Los avances en la ciencia y en la medicina son sinónimos de progreso social. La ciencia y la medicina sirven para definir el estatus social de las élites intelectuales, pues los expertos científicos prescriben las políticas sociales y los estilos de vida personales:

The scientific creeds of Social Darwinism and eugenics offered general models for constructing an ordered and developing society. As such, science and medicine provided an alternative to party politics, by forming a basis for collectivist social policies to remedy social ills. Whereas the state was reluctant to intervene in industry and commerce in order to limit the illeffects of industrialization, eugenicists planned intervention in family life and sexuality. The concept of a fit and healthy social organism provided a means for realizing renewed stability, social integration and national power.

(Weindling 1)

La salud no es sólo una ideología de integración nacional en un momento de cambio, sino que también asegura la unidad nacional a través de un estilo de vida uniforme para todos. La medicina científica define una profesión de élite que asumirá después un papel importante en los proyectos nacionales, pues los médicos serán conscientes de su responsabilidad social a la hora de promover la salud nacional y de asegurar la supervivencia de la nación.

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Médicos escritores en España, 1885-1955
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Pío Baroja, Gregorio Marañón y Antonio Vallejo Nágera
, pp. 183 - 190
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2010

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  • Conclusión
  • Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco
  • Book: Médicos escritores en España, 1885-1955
  • Online publication: 17 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846159206.006
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  • Conclusión
  • Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco
  • Book: Médicos escritores en España, 1885-1955
  • Online publication: 17 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846159206.006
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  • Conclusión
  • Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco
  • Book: Médicos escritores en España, 1885-1955
  • Online publication: 17 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846159206.006
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