La perspectiva católica sobre la salud y la práctica médica en la Argentina de los años treinta. La visión de los médicos confesionales

Abstract

This article focuses on an organization of laymen: the Buenos Aires Consortium of Catholic Doctors, founded in Argentina by the initiative of the Jesuit Guillermo Furlong in 1929. At that time, a group of eight doctors gathered al the Colegio de Salvador in Buenos Aires, decided to form a consortium and appointed Dr. Miguel Petty as president of institution and created the Iatria magazine. Precisely, this publication, created as a implement of massive recruitment and doctor’s profesional education and even of the ecclesiastic’s agents, is the base on the elaboration of this paper. The delimitation of the temporal frame of this study corresponds to the period 1929-1944 in correspondence with the process of institutionalization of the Consortium.