MEDICI ȘI ORGANIZARE MEDICALĂ ÎN MOLDOVA (1828–1834)
PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL ORGANIZATION IN MOLDAVIA (1828–1834)

Summary/Abstract: As part of a larger project, in which we intend to highlight the aspects regarding the beginnings of the “professionalization of medicine” within the Romanian extra-Carpathian territory, the present paper rather proves an introductory character, meant to bring into light some information collected from the documents of the time, sometimes details, but which, in the first years of the fourth decade of the 19th century. Therefore, the aim of this short study is to emphasize some changes that can be noticed in the medical field during that period, changes that were meant for a better organization of the physicians’ activity and that of the entire medical staff (surgeons, pharmacists, midwives). Having in view the image as a whole, we can notice an evolution that has as a starting point the strategies and the objectives that accompanied the fight against the plague, evolution which determined, gradually, a shift in the paradigm of the inhabitants’ health care, making the transition from adopting urgent measures, from stage regulations, not all the times coherent, to shaping public politics regarding hygiene, sanitation and health care. And the physicians, regardless of the level they worked, whether we talk about chief physicians, or about the department physicians, or about the physicians from the cities, they often represented the dynamic element of this evolution

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