Social Class in the Czech Physicians’ Quest for Professional Authority and Social Acknowledgement, 1830s–1930s

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Result on the web

<a href="https://hunghist.org/issue-current/83-articles/869-2023-3-rambuskova-martykanova" target="_blank" >https://hunghist.org/issue-current/83-articles/869-2023-3-rambuskova-martykanova</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.38145/2023.3.363" target="_blank" >10.38145/2023.3.363</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social Class in the Czech Physicians’ Quest for Professional Authority and Social Acknowledgement, 1830s–1930s

Original language description

In the mid-nineteenth century, physicians in the Czech lands could claim neither elite status as a professional group nor unquestioned authority in the medical field. Despite the legal protection granted by the Habsburg Monarchy, they did not have an efficient monopoly on medical authority and practice and had to face fierce competition from lay healers, male and female, and other medical professionals. This article examines how Czech-speaking physicians navigated social dynamics in nineteenth-century society in urban and rural areas and how they strove to strengthen their authority in the medical field both through appeals to their professional credentials and through class and gender discourses. We identify individual strategies of social ascension and collective efforts to boost the standing and authority of the whole professional group. Practices such as socializing in patriotic circles and authoring medical guidebooks for laymen proved as important as publications in the professional press and the work of professional associations in this complex effort, which was eventually crowned with success in interwar Czechoslovakia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hungarian Historical Review

ISSN

2063-8647

e-ISSN

2063-9961

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

"363–394"

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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