Políticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo XIX

I have found that in the mid-nineteenth Century Mexico, the notions of race and sex became objects for science and favored the production of medical knowledge, and so it happened with obstetrics. In the corpus of medical records kept by Mexican obstetricians of the National Academy of Medicine (1864...

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Autor principal:	Laura Cházaro
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2011
Materias:	dystocia; pelvic diseases medical knowledge obstetrics races Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c06bb826aa91469b8663088490906d032021-12-02T10:40:06ZPolíticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo XIX1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.61053https://doaj.org/article/c06bb826aa91469b8663088490906d032011-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61053https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252I have found that in the mid-nineteenth Century Mexico, the notions of race and sex became objects for science and favored the production of medical knowledge, and so it happened with obstetrics. In the corpus of medical records kept by Mexican obstetricians of the National Academy of Medicine (1864), some pathologies began to be explained by the racial origin and the sexual category of the patients. The association between pathologies, races and sexes was not foreign to European medical knowledge, and the knowledge produced in Europe was the point of reference to define what was normal and what was pathological as well as what was science and what was not. This text questions the way in which doctors, while producing knowledge, reproduce post-colonial political hierarchies which in turn reproduce ignorance and racism. Among doctors, to produce knowledge implies the authority of the diagnosis and the silence of the patients, but it also entails the silence of Mexican doctors before European knowledge. Thus, obstetrics as knowledge about the female sex that is marked by the racial origin of their people is translated into a measure of the doctors’ ignorance in marginal territories, and so it is diminished when compared to the knowledge produced in scientific centers.Laura CházaroCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticledystocia; pelvic diseasesmedical knowledgeobstetricsracesAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2011)
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description	I have found that in the mid-nineteenth Century Mexico, the notions of race and sex became objects for science and favored the production of medical knowledge, and so it happened with obstetrics. In the corpus of medical records kept by Mexican obstetricians of the National Academy of Medicine (1864), some pathologies began to be explained by the racial origin and the sexual category of the patients. The association between pathologies, races and sexes was not foreign to European medical knowledge, and the knowledge produced in Europe was the point of reference to define what was normal and what was pathological as well as what was science and what was not. This text questions the way in which doctors, while producing knowledge, reproduce post-colonial political hierarchies which in turn reproduce ignorance and racism. Among doctors, to produce knowledge implies the authority of the diagnosis and the silence of the patients, but it also entails the silence of Mexican doctors before European knowledge. Thus, obstetrics as knowledge about the female sex that is marked by the racial origin of their people is translated into a measure of the doctors’ ignorance in marginal territories, and so it is diminished when compared to the knowledge produced in scientific centers.
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title	Políticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo XIX
title_short	Políticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo XIX
title_full	Políticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo XIX
title_fullStr	Políticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo XIX
title_full_unstemmed	Políticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo XIX
title_sort	políticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo xix
publisher	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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Políticas del conocimiento: los silencios de los obstetras mexicanos sobre las razas y los sexos, fines del siglo XIX

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