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LEJAULT, Antoine  e  FOUQUET, Anne. Becoming Profession: Concomitant History of the Building of the Health system and the Professionalization of the Medical Group in Mexico. CONfines relacion. internaci. ciencia política [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.31, pp.61-88.  Epub 22-Jan-2024. ISSN 1870-3569.  https://doi.org/10.46530/cf.vi31/cnfns.n31.p61-88.

The article proposes a history of the process of professionalization of doctors in Mexico, focusing on the construction of the legitimization of the work of the medical group towards the public, but especially toward a new actor in the post‑independence health world: the State. The State's interest in public health arose from the need to respond to the successive waves of epidemics that affected the country during the 19th century, thus initiating the relationship between doctor and State. We study how, since then, the responses to public health developed by the governments from the 19th century until the beginning of the 21st century structure the process of the construction of medicine as a profession.

Palavras-chave : Physicians; professionalization; legitimization Mexico; health system.