El encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. Una imagen para México en los finales del siglo XIX

In the last decades of the XIX century grew the interest of Mexican physicians for new topics. With avidly, they wanted to know everything that was taking place in Europe. As a part of this hurry to reach the old continent, teratology and hysteria arrived to Mexico.  I ask in this essay about the re...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b57bdff57ce0494d9aee9c70bd4e21002021-12-02T10:36:17ZEl encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. Una imagen para México en los finales del siglo XIX1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.3123https://doaj.org/article/b57bdff57ce0494d9aee9c70bd4e21002006-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/3123https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252In the last decades of the XIX century grew the interest of Mexican physicians for new topics. With avidly, they wanted to know everything that was taking place in Europe. As a part of this hurry to reach the old continent, teratology and hysteria arrived to Mexico.  I ask in this essay about the reasons that explain the interest of Mexican doctors precisely in these topics: what was exactly what they looked in them and what allowed his posterior rooting? In an attempt for answering these questions, I investigate in the leagues between the monster, the hysterical and  modernity, in this way, while I open the teratology speech to  the problem of race, I put in the center of the discourses about hysteria  and  mental illness the question about the person. Without these two questions it is not possible to understand today the modernity that we endure.Frida GorbachCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticleanomalymodern medicineracepersonAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2006)
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Frida Gorbach
El encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. Una imagen para México en los finales del siglo XIX
description In the last decades of the XIX century grew the interest of Mexican physicians for new topics. With avidly, they wanted to know everything that was taking place in Europe. As a part of this hurry to reach the old continent, teratology and hysteria arrived to Mexico.  I ask in this essay about the reasons that explain the interest of Mexican doctors precisely in these topics: what was exactly what they looked in them and what allowed his posterior rooting? In an attempt for answering these questions, I investigate in the leagues between the monster, the hysterical and  modernity, in this way, while I open the teratology speech to  the problem of race, I put in the center of the discourses about hysteria  and  mental illness the question about the person. Without these two questions it is not possible to understand today the modernity that we endure.
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title El encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. Una imagen para México en los finales del siglo XIX
title_short El encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. Una imagen para México en los finales del siglo XIX
title_full El encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. Una imagen para México en los finales del siglo XIX
title_fullStr El encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. Una imagen para México en los finales del siglo XIX
title_full_unstemmed El encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. Una imagen para México en los finales del siglo XIX
title_sort el encuentro de un monstruo y una histérica. una imagen para méxico en los finales del siglo xix
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