Kaba Mariama
Institut universitaire d'histoire de la médecine et de la santé publique, Lausanne.
Gesnerus. 2013;70(1):68-85.
In Belle Epoque towns marked by the industrial and medical surge, a new technical therapy, called mechanotherapy, emerged, stemming from Swedish medical gymnastics and auxiliary to orthopaedics. Aiming mostly at treating scoliosis, this therapy by movement attracted a sizeable female clientele to these towns, because of the hygienic and social conceptions feeding collective imagination linked to the bodies of scoliotic young girls. Taking the French-speaking Swiss towns of Lausanne and Geneva as examples, the article first seeks to describe the emergence of mechanotherapy as a medical and urban phenomenon. It then addresses the role played by scoliosis in this orthopaedic practice, and examines the clientele attracted to the towns, among which well-born young girls seem to be predominant.
在以工业和医学蓬勃发展为特征的美好时代城镇中，一种名为机械疗法的新技术疗法应运而生，它源自瑞典医疗体操，是骨科的辅助疗法。这种疗法主要针对脊柱侧弯的治疗，通过运动来进行治疗，由于其卫生和社会观念迎合了与脊柱侧弯年轻女孩身体相关的集体想象，吸引了大量女性患者来到这些城镇。以说法语的瑞士城镇洛桑和日内瓦为例，本文首先试图描述机械疗法作为一种医学和城市现象的出现。接着探讨脊柱侧弯在这种骨科治疗实践中所起的作用，并研究被吸引到这些城镇的患者群体，其中出身良好的年轻女孩似乎占主导地位。
