La odontología : profesión liberal que se debate entre la distinción y la extinción

ABSTRACT: This investigation covered the dental profession and its practice, in a time characterized by the merchandizing? Of health services within the geographical scope of the Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá. Methods: this is a descriptive study validated as the category: living conditions of dentists from Bourdieu’s sociological theory. The sample consisted of 461 dentists, obtained from the databases of Hospital Waste Generators and Similar -RH1- (in Spanish: Generadores de Residuos Hospitalarios y Similares); who were surveyed. Results: characterization of the dental profession as a product of a professional practice with an apparent disposition towards social distinction through ‘habitus’, capital processes of social accumulation, economic and cultural insertion in social class and social disputes. The results are analyzed under the assumption: “Today´s dentistry is a profession that is torn between distinction and extinction”, phenomenon fueled by tensions, disputes and conflicts of a market that places the professionals in a struggle to achieve new and better social spaces, with select lifestyles and living conditions mediated by the influence of neoliberal policies in Colombia. Conclusions: the situation of the dental profession in the Metropolitan Area of Valle de Aburra, parting from the living conditions of those dentists surveyed in this study, makes us consider the need for rethinking the educational processes of the human talent in the health areas, the production of knowledge and the dimension of the dental care rendered.

• Autores: Jaramillo Delgado, Gonzalo; Velásquez Escobar, José Pablo; Marín Uribe, Alejandra
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2014
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/5593
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/5593
• Palabra clave: Condiciones sociales; Estilo de vida; Movilidad social; Clase social; Práctica profesional; Seguridad social; Odontología; Capital; Social conditions; Life style; Social mobility; Social class; Professional practice; Professional practice; Social security; Dentistry
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)