Una visión del cuerpo femenino y de la enfermedad a partir de dos diagnósticos médicos, Lima 1803
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2003.v60.i1.170Keywords:
History of Private life, History of medicine, Divorce, Women HistoryAbstract
This work analyzes two medical reports emitted in the context of a judgement of divorce carried out in the city of Lima in 1803. María Cabrera requests and exhibits, as test for the lawsuit, two diagnoses about her venereal disease. These documents makes possible the reconstruction of the image that science generated about women, based in the new knowledge of the epoch. The melancholy, weak and unstable character of this woman are explained by her physiological constitution that justifies her exclusion of the public space. However, the new mechanistic conception of the body becomes evident in medical treatment, based in the application of chemical and physical laws.
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