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

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 ...