*HYSTERIA, *PUBLIC health, *MEDICAL care, *PHYSICIANS, *HISTORY of medicine, *NEUROLOGY, *GYNECOLOGY
Abstract
During the last third of the nineteenth century, Buenos Aires physicians dealt extensively with hysterical pathology, especially among the female population. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the various theoretical fabrications elaborated by those professionals about the disease. After recognizing a first set of writings in which a certain morbid autonomy was not granted to the condition, the theoretical frameworks prevailing in the subsequent works are described in detail. Special attention is paid to clinical devices used by doctors in their practice, since it is assumed that those devices had a clear impact on the ways the pathology was understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published
2019
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