The Monster Woman in Medical Research around 1900

Authors

  • Silvy Chakkalakal Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Promotionsstipendiatin der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/675

Keywords:

Differenz, Diskurs, Neuzeit, Technik, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Katja Sabisch sketches how in syphilis research around 1900 experiments on humans become entangled with the differentiation between genders. Against the background of the practical turns in scientific research, she is concerned with the phenomenon of the epistemological coming-into-being of the (female) test subject: The “object of study”—the infected and infecting woman—is brought into being through practices of experimentation and exploration as well as the exemplification as the “object of study.” Based on her detailed work with sources, Katja Sabisch expands on known techno-sociologic and scientific-historical perspectives in order to prove the importance of the development of difference in the history of medicine.

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Published

2008-11-07

Issue

No. 26 (2008): Dimensionen von Ungleichheit

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2008 Silvy Chakkalakal

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