Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaMedicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century
This article shows that medical specialties involving women, reproduction, and sexuality -specialties that gained relevancy in the initial decades of the 20th century- are linked to the production of eugenicist and nationalist politics in Brazil. It analyzes scientific production in the fields of gy...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/221 |
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| author | Rohden, Fabiola |
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| description | This article shows that medical specialties involving women, reproduction, and sexuality -specialties that gained relevancy in the initial decades of the 20th century- are linked to the production of eugenicist and nationalist politics in Brazil. It analyzes scientific production in the fields of gynecology, obstetrics, and childcare, as presented in academic theses and medical journals between 1900 and 1940. This material both shows how ideas concerning the need to increase the birthrate, expressed most tellingly in the valorization of motherhood, are constructed, and also how the birth of individuals who are considered undesirable was restricted through sterilization and other contraceptive practices. |
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| spelling | iconos-article-2212024-04-23T19:45:22Z Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century Medicina, Estado y reproducción en el Brasil de inicios del siglo XX Rohden, Fabiola gender reproduction maternity nation medicine eugenics Brazil género reproducción maternidad nación medicina eugenesia Brasil This article shows that medical specialties involving women, reproduction, and sexuality -specialties that gained relevancy in the initial decades of the 20th century- are linked to the production of eugenicist and nationalist politics in Brazil. It analyzes scientific production in the fields of gynecology, obstetrics, and childcare, as presented in academic theses and medical journals between 1900 and 1940. This material both shows how ideas concerning the need to increase the birthrate, expressed most tellingly in the valorization of motherhood, are constructed, and also how the birth of individuals who are considered undesirable was restricted through sterilization and other contraceptive practices. El artículo relaciona el desarrollo de las especialidades médicas que giran en torno a la mujer, la reproducción y la sexualidad, con la producción de políticas nacionalistas y eugenésicas en el Brasil de las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Para hacerlo analiza la producción científica en las áreas de la ginecología, obstetricia y puericultura, presentadas en tesis académicas y periódicos médicos entre 1900 y 1940. Este material permite ver las diversas vinculaciones entre las necesidades de aumento de la natalidad, la valorización de la maternidad, y la restricción, a través de la esterilización y otras prácticas contraceptivas, del nacimiento de individuos considerados indeseables. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2007-05-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/221 10.17141/iconos.28.2007.221 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 28 (2007): Dossier: Género y nación en América Latina; 47-57 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; n. 28 (2007): Dossier: Género y nación en América Latina; 47-57 Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 28 (2007): Dossier: Gender and nation in Latin America ; 47-57 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/221/217 Derechos de autor 2013 Fabiola Rohden https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
| spellingShingle | Rohden, Fabiola Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century |
| title | Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century |
| title_full | Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century |
| title_fullStr | Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century |
| title_short | Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century |
| title_sort | medicine, state and reproduction in brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century |
| url | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/221 |