Bibliographic exploration about knowledge and medical training in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata. An approach from the decolonial perspective.

Abstract

In the present article we propose to reconstruct the image that a large part of the twentieth century bibliography composed about the configuration of medical knowledge during the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata; and analyze how this gravitated in designing the curricular contents of the Protomedicato, underlining how concurrently the knowledge about health that native peoples of America had was invisibilized or were carriers the blacks uprooted from Africa and transformed into slaves in these latitudes .

This historical review exercise about the training of doctors during the Viceroyalty aims to put in tension the Eurocentric gaze proposed by widely circulated texts, such as the manual by José Cosmelli Ibañez, and a critical perspective inscribed in the decolonial tradition.