Medicine and sexual morality in prewar Spain

Authors

  • Raquel Alvarez Peláez CSIC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1990.v42.2.566

Abstract


Sexual morality, with all its implications of social and personal control, its ideological burden and search of scientific support as a justification of the evolution of the social and political struggle in Spain during the first third of the century. Medicine, ranking extremely high in a strongly medicalized society due to the actual conditions in public health and a pathologizing moral, with an ambigous position between science and welfare, played an important role in the struggle to establish a new moral attitude more suited to go along with the ambitioned social transformations.

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Published

1990-12-30

How to Cite

Alvarez Peláez, R. (1990). Medicine and sexual morality in prewar Spain. Asclepio, 42(2), 201–210. https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1990.v42.2.566

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Social control

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