Balbo E A
Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia, UCM.
Cuad Complut Hist Med Cienc. 1993;1:329-39.
This study analizes differents gynacological treatments of mental illnesses throughout the 19th century. The autor reaches the conclusion, via the professional activity of the English surgeon Isaac Baker Brown, that these gynological treaments were really the result of the confluence of a series of factors: the development of the insanity reflex theory, the consideration of Woman as the pathological prisioner of her genitality, the pessimistic vision of mental illness based on the theory of degeneration, the lack of therapeutic resources in mental medicine and, finally, the marked competition of Victorian doctors amongst themselves and also their profit motive, disguised and hidden under the welcoming cloak of a hypocritical medical morale.
这项研究分析了19世纪对精神疾病的不同妇科治疗方法。作者通过英国外科医生艾萨克·贝克·布朗的专业活动得出结论，这些妇科治疗实际上是一系列因素共同作用的结果：精神错乱反射理论的发展、将女性视为其生殖器官的病理囚徒、基于退化理论对精神疾病的悲观看法、精神医学中治疗资源的匮乏，以及最后，维多利亚时代医生之间激烈的竞争以及他们的逐利动机，这些都隐藏在虚伪的医学道德这一受欢迎的外衣之下。
