The doctor-patient relationship in times of reform. A socio-historical and gender analysis of the ABC newspaper in the 1980s

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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2023.07

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Doctor-patient relationship, Gender perspective, Historical discourse analysis, Transition to democracy, ABC newspaper

Abstract


The article analyzes the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in articles published in ABC newspaper and explores the production of gender meanings of the therapeutic encounter during the eighties, a period of renewal and structural changes in Spanish health care. The historical analysis of ABC journalistic discourse revealed the social projection of a doctor-patient relationship as a humanitarian act of love, according to the testimonies of the doctors. They frequently showed their resistance to health reform and concern for the changes in structural reorganization and quality of care. From 1984, patients and some journalists also criticize the bureaucratization of the doctor-patient relationship. The protection that the 1986 Health Law gave to the patients’ rights increased published opinions against the Health Law. The conservative discursive lines of the ABC reflected the symbolic resistance to health reform, the moralization of health-disease, the hegemony of male medical professionalization and the invisibility and subalternity of female health workers.

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2023-05-24

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Danet Danet, A. (2023). The doctor-patient relationship in times of reform. A socio-historical and gender analysis of the ABC newspaper in the 1980s. Asclepio, 75(1), e07. https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2023.07

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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Grant numbers PID2021-122699OB-100