The Science of Birth: Visions of the Female Body in the Making of Scientific Obstetrics in the 19th Century

This article deals with the production of specialized knowledge about the female body between the 19th and 20th centuries. Its main goal is to analyze the production of images displayed in obstetrics treatises and manuals published in Europe and used by Brazilian medical students and doctors. It...

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Main Author:	Ana Paula Vosne Martins
Format:	Article
Language:	Spanish
Published:	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2005-01-01
Series:	Revista Estudos Feministas
Subjects:	imagens corpo obstetrícia realismo
Online Access:	https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/8382

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title	The Science of Birth: Visions of the Female Body in the Making of Scientific Obstetrics in the 19th Century
title_short	The Science of Birth: Visions of the Female Body in the Making of Scientific Obstetrics in the 19th Century
title_full	The Science of Birth: Visions of the Female Body in the Making of Scientific Obstetrics in the 19th Century
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publisher	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
series	Revista Estudos Feministas
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publishDate	2005-01-01
description	This article deals with the production of specialized knowledge about the female body between the 19th and 20th centuries. Its main goal is to analyze the production of images displayed in obstetrics treatises and manuals published in Europe and used by Brazilian medical students and doctors. It seeks to understand the realism of the medical-scientific images of the female body as a means of expression of a new relationship between doctors and women, resulting from the investigation methods used in anatomy-pathology laboratories and in the clinical examination of pregnant women.
topic	imagens corpo obstetrícia realismo
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The Science of Birth: Visions of the Female Body in the Making of Scientific Obstetrics in the 19th Century

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