Ayala, Ricardo A., Thulin, Markus and Rocio Nunez, E. (2019). Cold Interests, Hot Conflicts: How a Professional Association Responded to a Change in Political Regimes. Nurs. Hist. Rev., 27. S. 57 - 87. NEW YORK: SPRINGER PUBLISHING CO. ISSN 1938-1913

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Abstract

In South America, the 1970s began with ardent sociopolitical crises leading to a wave of repressive military regimes. In Chile, most professional bodies suffered profound structural and functional modifications resulting from internal political polarization as well as state intervention. Nurses saw the same fate befall them, which created both a historical blackout and abrupt changes in power dynamics. Given the prominence of this process in the reconfiguration of modern nursing's identity, this article traces the association's political process during the short-lived 1970s Marxist-inspired government and the response of nurses collectively to the rapid shift into a repressive regime leading to a profound internal crisis and an identity break-up within nursing. By using archival sources and oral testimonies1 of 1970s and 1980s nurses, we reconstruct a historical account of a key period in the history of the country that for the nurses meant a progression of discord and division along with a self-imposed silence on the past. In so doing, the article adds to a growing literature on the participation of women in political life.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Ayala, Ricardo A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Thulin, MarkusUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Rocio Nunez, E.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-160079
DOI: 10.1891/1062-8061.27.57
Journal or Publication Title: Nurs. Hist. Rev.
Volume: 27
Page Range: S. 57 - 87
Date: 2019
Publisher: SPRINGER PUBLISHING CO
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
ISSN: 1938-1913
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
History; History & Philosophy Of Science; History Of Social Sciences; NursingMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/16007

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