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- Title
La simulación en el mundo del trabajo, Colombia 1911-1957.
- Authors
Gallo, Óscar; Caponi, Sandra; Fernanda Vásquez, Maria
- Abstract
The 57 Colombian Law of 1915 stipulated that medical doctors should be responsible for evaluate the magnitude of work accidents. Besides determining the time of disability and the indemnification, they had the function of revealing, in entrance examination, the constitutions or morbid predispositions to the accident of each worker; and they also had to detect cases of "simulation" after the accident. In this article, we analyze how occupational physicians of Colombia tried that simulation. We show that the way in which French psychiatry defined and classified the simulation influenced the majority of Colombian doctors; although in legal medical practice, the economic dynamics conditioned, in a high degree, the scope of the discussion. Our analysis shows that the world of labor is an ideal place to observe the social construction of disease.
- Publication
Política & Sociedade: Revista de Sociologia Política, 2016, Vol 15, Issue 32, p230
- ISSN
1677-4140
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5007/2175-7984.2016v15n32p230