L’assistance clinique et sanitaire de l’accouchement: Trajectoire nationale et influences internationales, Santiago du Chili, 1900–1950

Abstract

This article outlines various aspects of the history of medical assistance for childbirth and its professionalization in Santiago, Chile, identifying the influences and interactions of Chilean medicine and national health and social policies with European clinical obstetrics and social medicine. It also explores the discussion and selective adoption and adaptation of these ideas by the Latin American scientific community and Chile's increasing interest in the US-developed field of public health specialization in the first half of the 20th century.