Between confessions and advice: The scope of social diagnoses of hygiene visitors. La Plata, 1940s
The doctors in charge of training social hygiene visitors insisted on allegories about the functions of the visitors. Friends, confidants, good neighbors, civil sisters of charity, among others, were allusions to the role of listener and ready to confess that these women would occupy, once they grad...
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Universidad Nacional del Litoral
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/14482 |
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| Sumario: | The doctors in charge of training social hygiene visitors insisted on allegories about the functions of the visitors. Friends, confidants, good neighbors, civil sisters of charity, among others, were allusions to the role of listener and ready to confess that these women would occupy, once they graduated.
Actions linked to confession as a strategy to access privacy were historically used by the Catholic Church, by philanthropic associations, and since the end of the 19th century they were also recovered in the intervention modalities systematized by the Anglophone "pioneers" as part of the social diagnosis. In the initial process of professionalization of Social Work in Argentina, at the beginning of the 20th century, the confession modality was also used instrumentally by social hygiene visitors.
In this sense, it is of interest in this work to trace the impact of the North American model of social diagnosis in the definition of the instruments for gathering information and the conception of the subject about which the visitors would obtain the “confessions”. To do so, I will analyze a set of interviews conducted by the visitors dedicated to health care at the Casa Cuna and Institute of Childcare in the city of La Plata during the 1940s. |
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