Madre sólo hay una. Ilustración, maternidad y medicina en el Perú del siglo XVIII

Claudia Rosas Lauro

doi:10.3989/aeamer.2004.v61.i1.144

Madre sólo hay una. Ilustración, maternidad y medicina en el Perú del siglo XVIII

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Claudia Rosas Lauro Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

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https://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2004.v61.i1.144

Keywords:

Maternity, Enlightenment, Women’s History, History of medicine

Abstract

This work studies the construction of a model of maternity that served as the base of the enlightenment family in the late 18th century of Peru. It analyzes journalism and other texts of the period, to show the hygienist discourse about pregnancy and birth, the controversies about breast-feeding, the diatribes against midewifes versus scientific knowledge of medical doctors, among other aspects, to configure a new vision of maternity. This vision relates to a more complex process of society on the whole, such as the birth of a modern journalism and public opinion or the formalization of scientific knowledge and the increased social role of medical doctor. In this way, this discourse shows one of the many faces of the difficult process of modernity.

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Author Biography

Claudia Rosas Lauro, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos, Universidad de Florencia

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Published

2004-06-30

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Rosas Lauro, C. (2004). Madre sólo hay una. Ilustración, maternidad y medicina en el Perú del siglo XVIII. Anuario De Estudios Americanos, 61(1), 103–138. https://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2004.v61.i1.144

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Vol. 61 No. 1 (2004)

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Dossier

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