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Materiële belangenbehartiging en professionalisering: de Belgische arts en de fiscus in de 19de eeuw

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Abstract

The defense of material interests and the rise of the professions. Belgian physicians and taxation in the 19th century - The present article deals with the opposition of 19th century Belgian physicians to the taxation of the medical profession, more specifically to the so-called ’patent’-taxation which was introduced in 1819 and abolished in 1913. This struggle reached its first climax with the ’petionnement’ of the forties, which started with the petition of the Belgian Academy of Medecine in 1843. It culminated again in the seventies, at which particular time the Belgian Parliament was in complete commotion about the question of whether the taxation for physicians should be abolished or the lawyers should rather be made to pay these taxes too, which they never did. I defend the view that the argumentation used in this debate by the professional organisations and by the medical press was only part of a wider discussion aimed to legitimate the role of medicine.

How to Cite:

Velle, K., (1990) “Materiële belangenbehartiging en professionalisering: de Belgische arts en de fiscus in de 19de eeuw”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 35(3), 235–260. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95048