Jueces, médicos y enfermos. Prácticas y sentidos en la construcción social del delito de contagio venéreo en la Argentina durante la primera mitad del siglo XX

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História

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

02/12/2019

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Abstract This article analyzes the social construction of the crime of venereal disease contagion in Argentina, during the first half of the 20th century, from the action of three players: the judges, the doctors and the sick. This construct was understood as a legal tool for the national modernization that could help to identify and isolate infection focus that harm healthy reproduction that was racially homogeneous and free from the population conflicts, but its application wasn’t linear. For that reason, this article questions the debates and practices of the auditors, the judges and the physicians, seen as heterogeneous players with different interests according to the role they played in the judgment or in public administration, who intervened in legal processes and where can be highlighted not only the differential logics of each one of these players at the time of making a decision, but also the weight of the great arbitrariety that left the legal framework open at the moment of its application. Furthermore, this paper studies the process from the point of view of the complainants that used the crime of venereal disease contagion as a way to solve private issues, such as, the divorce, abuses, betrayal or jealousy, at the same time that these requests legitimated the crime profile and the attributes of State institutions to operate in the population intimate lives.

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