En busca de la ciencia médica. De herbolarias a farmacéuticas en la ciudad de México, siglos XIX y XX

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Las mujeres se preocuparon y ocuparon del conocimiento de las hierbas y los animales en sus usos alimenticio y medicinal, así como del desafío presentado para ser aceptadas como alumnas de la Escuela Nacional de Medicina en una de las áreas de las ciencias de la salud que ejercían empíricamente: la farmacéutica. En el siglo XIX las curanderas y herbolarias eran consideradas en dos vertientes: como la mujer sabia, la sanadora, y como la hechicera capaz de hacer maleficios. In Search of Medical Science: From Herbalists to Pharmaceuticals in Mexico City, 19th and 20th Centuries Women were concerned with and occupied by knowledge about herbs and animals in food and for medicinal purposes, as well as the challenge to be accepted as students at the National School of Medicine in one of the areas of the healing sciences that were exercised empirically: the pharmaceutical. In the Nineteenth Century, women healers and herbalists were considered in two ways: as wise women who could cure, and as witches who cast spells.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31836/lh.15.6096