Women, neurophysiology and insanity
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1990.v42.2.563Abstract
In 19th century England, where the mention of sex belonged to the social taboos, there exists a wealth of medical literature reporting widely diversified opinions on the alterations of sexuality. Women's behaviour and their mental pathologies were the main object of study in victorian psychiatry. The recent findings in neurophysiology of the time originated new concepts of the nature insanity which motivated aggressive treatments, such as clitoridectomy, generating remarkable controversy and conflicts in the medical circles of the time.
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