Nursing as a “resource”: the profesionalization process of nursing in the 70´s, between State policies and the medical-hegemonic model

Abstract

This research is an attempt to portray the changes in nursing professional practice, placed in the 70´s at the INE “Juan H Jara”, as well as the different changes in State policies and it´s relationship with the medical corporation. We analyzed the nursing discourse and compared it with documents of this time, in an attempt to shed light on the dynamics and structure of the social processes of reproduction, that had a gradual “invisibility” effect on nursing practice. Nursing has been considered as a “resource” by doctors, much like medical supplies, so that they could “stock up” or dispose of, according to momentary needs, this “instrumentalisation” is relatable to difficulties for the development of critical analysis and collective processes of resistanse to professional alienation.

Keywords

• historia de la enfermería
• modelo medico-hegemonico
• capital social
• crisis