Función de la prensa médica española en la difusión de la médecine physiologique (1820-1850)
Abstract
This article explores the medical press as a new genre of scientific literature (journal articles) and as a media for doctors, specially rural general practicioners who aspired to turn their profession into a scientific activity. The process of diffusion of broussaism in Spain is the subject or case study to analyse this problem. The « medicine physiologique » of F. J.V. Broussais (the revolutionary and heterodoxal way of the anatomoclinical medicine) focussed, in fact, the great scientific controversy during the first half of the 19th century, which was legitimate and solved primarily by medical press rather than books. The sistematic review of all medical periodicals published in Spain during 1820-1850 give us clear picture of the natural history of the rise and death of broussaim also well the social and political context for the development of this new media.
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