The concept of sexual "Perversion" in positivist medicine
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1990.v42.2.559Abstract
This article studies the appearance of the concept of sexual perversion in psychiatry and legal medicine in France during the second half of the 19th century, fundamentally based on the works of Valentin Magnan and Ambroise Tardieu. The inter-relation action between «scientific» and «moral» discourse of the time is especially highlighted and the most noteworthy contributions of positivist and pre-Freudian medicine are reported, which had fully accepted somaticist biologism and the demands of social control.
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1990-12-30
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Huertas García-Alejo, R. (1990). The concept of sexual "Perversion" in positivist medicine. Asclepio, 42(2), 89–99. https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1990.v42.2.559
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Norm and transgression
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