Resumen

LEYVA PINA, Marco Antonio  y  PICHARDO PALACIOS, Santiago. Doctors of the Farmacias Similares: Degradation of the medical profession?. Polis [online]. 2012, vol.8, n.1, pp.143-175. ISSN 2594-0686.

The medical profession was built with great social valuation and became a bulwark for industrial society's constitution. Sociological theory has studied the medical profession's historic process and among its perspectives, it points out one that makes reference to the decline of professions. From that stance we inquire if the medical profession is currently undergoing an deprofessionalization process. To answer this question we use as a reference, the doctors working at the famous Farmacias Similares doctor's office. This type of attention is a successful entrepreneur strategy, with national presence and expanding in other Latin American countries. At its core, however, doctors are working in precarious conditions covered up by the entrepreneur ideology of helping the poor. Such a duality is a relevant symptom giving ground to talk of medical deprofessionalization at Farmacias Similares.

Palabras llave : Profession; medicine; generic medicines; deprofessionalization.

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