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Darrera modificació: 2020-03-10
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Bayle, Ariane, "Discours moral et tableaux cliniques: la pluralité des figures féminines dans les textes médicaux sur la syphilis au XVIe siècle", Histoire, médecine et santé, 9 [=Syphilis, ed. Ariane Bayle i Concetta Pennuto] (2016), 19-39.
- Resum
- In this article, Ariane Bayle compares the ways in which women are perceived in literary and medical texts dealing with syphilis in the sixteenth century. Drawing from an ancient and long-lasting tradition of “sinful women”, many French poetic and satiric texts of that time use allegory to represent the disease, reinvesting in a range of mythological and religious characters to show that women were more often regarded as being infective agents rather than infected victims. Although the moralizing purpose is more discreet in medical treatises written by physicians trying to provide more objective knowledge of the new disease, it appears that such misogynistic prejudices surreptitiously underlie the discourse of surgeons and physicians such as Thierry de Héry, Ambroise Paré or Jean Fernel, who make sinful prostitutes, midwives and wet-nurses the haunting symbols of such a social peril and of the relentless transmission of the pandemic.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Dones
- URL
- https://journals.openedition.org/hms/936
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