Resumen

TORRES, Alejandra Rodríguez; SOTO, Edgar C. Jarillo  y  PATINO, Donovan Casas. Meanings of the medical profession from the ideology of medical professionals. Salud colect. [online]. 2020, vol.16, e2798. ISSN 1669-2381.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2020.2798.

This article deals with the ideology of medical professionals in order to understand the meanings attributed to their profession, taking Thompson’s theory as a starting point and centering on the categories of autonomy, norms and values, and social recognition. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with medical professionals in Amecameca, a municipality in the State of Mexico, from March to October 2019, in four sectors of service provision: public institutional, private institutional, private practice, and mixed practice. The analysis of meanings expressed by medical professionals with respect to each category of interest reveals that medical professionals are conditioned by the structure of state control and by the commodified economy, where private forms of medical practice are more highly regarded. In the ideological conformation of the medical profession, there remains a practical component imbued with a liberal romanticism in an extinct scenario that still exists today, without being articulated to more general social processes.

Palabras clave : Physicians; Professional Practice; Professional Practice Location; Professional Autonomy; Health Facilities; Mexico.

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