Violencias ejercidas en los cuerpos enajenados : encierro terapéutico y privación de derechos civiles. Chile central (1850-1870)
This study explores the relationship between medical science, violence and the sick body in the context of Chilean early alienism through two perspectives : medical isolation (materialized through the Casa de Orates de Santiago) and the deprivation of civil rights through interdiction. The problemat...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2009
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/b5489b0e16ad47f98d6e4dd79c7f125e |
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| Summary: | This study explores the relationship between medical science, violence and the sick body in the context of Chilean early alienism through two perspectives : medical isolation (materialized through the Casa de Orates de Santiago) and the deprivation of civil rights through interdiction. The problematization of the asylum as a space of symbolic and material violence allow to explore the scope of contemporary medical authority, while the study of interdiction give us a different entrance to the analysis of violence and the place of the mentally ill in Chilean society. |
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