Cultura de los Cuidados (May 2018)
The democratic care in Argentine nursing: Historical and social aspects unveiled by gender perspective
Abstract
Introduction: the consolidation of medical; religious; patriarchal and of the healthcare consumption market hegemony in the world of nursing, has emphasized professional subordination and colonized healthcare in order to collaborate in sustaining the status quo. It seems essential to open a discussion about this problem in the context of an established democracy since the 1980s in Argentina. To achieve this, it would be necessary to highlight some advances and setbacks in women’s citizenship and in nursing care that have structured the process of professionalization from a critical discussion of radical democracy and full citizenship with a gender perspective. Objective: to identify the grammar of interaction, the subjectivities across it and the different forms of Coloniality present in the profession through the gender matrix to account for the lines of care that attempt or promote sovereignty with plurality. Method: historiographic study of theoretical analysis. Results: different historical periods in Argentinean nursing have evidenced the possibility of expanding or restricting the citizenship of the profession in a very unequal way and subject to the civil and political participation of the public. The consolidation of democracy since the 80s has enabled disciplinary development, with law of professional practice - and the recognition of autonomy - a historical and political turning point with scarce symbolic capitalization. The practice continues to be influenced by historical oppressive burdens entailing a form of care which becomes undemocratic. Conclusions: radical democracy, as the scales of justice appear as conceptual frameworks of vital political discussion within the profession to identify democratic care and ensure full citizenship of professionals and who should receive democratic care.
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