Les vaines pudeurs à l’hôpital (XIXe siècle)
Staying in hospitals demanded that patients offered their bodies to the hands of physicians and medical staff. The hope for cure and the feeling of pain, linked to the stiffness of hospital rules in the 19th century—known as areas of community and exhibition—led to a denial of decency defined as “re...
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2012-06-01
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| description | Staying in hospitals demanded that patients offered their bodies to the hands of physicians and medical staff. The hope for cure and the feeling of pain, linked to the stiffness of hospital rules in the 19th century—known as areas of community and exhibition—led to a denial of decency defined as “reserve or modesty which prevents from saying or doing some things” (Littré). Claims for the rights of patients’ decency can be observed however in letters of complaint addressed to hospital heads of department. These letters of complaint reflect a number of gestures, talks and behaviours unbearable to patients demanding respect. The study of both complaints and answers given by hospital administration, concerned by likely scandals and media coverage, reveals that decency had more to do with feelings of loss or pain, or respect, than with the patients’ bodies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-64a0d6a9e64d46acad692e7af69078772023-02-09T16:10:17ZengPresses universitaires du MidiHistoire, Médecine et Santé2263-89112557-21132012-06-011476110.4000/hms.194Les vaines pudeurs à l’hôpital (XIXe siècle)Claire BarilléStaying in hospitals demanded that patients offered their bodies to the hands of physicians and medical staff. The hope for cure and the feeling of pain, linked to the stiffness of hospital rules in the 19th century—known as areas of community and exhibition—led to a denial of decency defined as “reserve or modesty which prevents from saying or doing some things” (Littré). Claims for the rights of patients’ decency can be observed however in letters of complaint addressed to hospital heads of department. These letters of complaint reflect a number of gestures, talks and behaviours unbearable to patients demanding respect. The study of both complaints and answers given by hospital administration, concerned by likely scandals and media coverage, reveals that decency had more to do with feelings of loss or pain, or respect, than with the patients’ bodies.http://journals.openedition.org/hms/194hospitalmodestynudityphysicianpatient |
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