Rather, it takes a discursive approach, defined by the author as “social imagology,” meaning primarily an analysis of official reports compiled by medics on the state of health of the country’s rural population (p. This circumstance in itself renders Constantin Bărbulescu’s monograph of intrinsic interest.īărbulescu’s book is not an institutional history or prosopographic profile of the medical profession, although some information is provided on doctors’ intellectual formation and worldview, as well as a few portrait photographs. However, the professions that had in many ways the greatest impact on social and economic life in Old Kingdom Romania-lawyers, soldiers, entrepreneurs, engineers, and doctors-have received comparatively less attention. Historians have studied the roots of their own profession assiduously, and there are some notable works on political elites and parties, intellectuals and ideologues, and other interest groups in the period from the Union of the Principalities to the outbreak of the Great War. Despite this, not enough detailed research has gone into understanding this process and its impact on society. The formation of a body of professional classes and institutions was one of the most significant consequences of the establishment of the Romanian state in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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