Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975)
The encounter between aborted women and the hospital personnel, from the 1900s to the law of 1975 authorizing abortion, is often presented as a typical illustration of the “medical power” ; many retrospective narratives even evoke the existence of medical “bad treatments” to punish those who had com...
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| description | The encounter between aborted women and the hospital personnel, from the 1900s to the law of 1975 authorizing abortion, is often presented as a typical illustration of the “medical power” ; many retrospective narratives even evoke the existence of medical “bad treatments” to punish those who had committed such a “criminal” act. This paper tries to reconstruct a complex history, which intertwins moral and professional norms and clinical or material realities. Exploring the doctor-patient relationship may be a means of understanding the concrete conditions of a “reluctance to care (or to cure)” and a way of analyzing the treatments that were performed. Our observations tend to prove that a couple of basic criteria were considered as sufficient to distinguish the “voluntarily aborted women” ; this elementary diagnosis was the first step of a stigmatization which led to an array of medical discriminations. Even if physical violence were probably not the leading attitude, it is likely that at several periods, the public hospital doctors did not do their possible to prevent the sanitary consequences of clandestine induced abortion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df616eadcd6a48cd80bbd3fed68fc52b2023-02-09T16:10:23ZengPresses universitaires du MidiHistoire, Médecine et Santé2263-89112557-21132015-11-017637610.4000/hms.797Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975)Fabrice CahenThe encounter between aborted women and the hospital personnel, from the 1900s to the law of 1975 authorizing abortion, is often presented as a typical illustration of the “medical power” ; many retrospective narratives even evoke the existence of medical “bad treatments” to punish those who had committed such a “criminal” act. This paper tries to reconstruct a complex history, which intertwins moral and professional norms and clinical or material realities. Exploring the doctor-patient relationship may be a means of understanding the concrete conditions of a “reluctance to care (or to cure)” and a way of analyzing the treatments that were performed. Our observations tend to prove that a couple of basic criteria were considered as sufficient to distinguish the “voluntarily aborted women” ; this elementary diagnosis was the first step of a stigmatization which led to an array of medical discriminations. Even if physical violence were probably not the leading attitude, it is likely that at several periods, the public hospital doctors did not do their possible to prevent the sanitary consequences of clandestine induced abortion.http://journals.openedition.org/hms/797induced abortionhospitalcarepainbad treatments |
| spellingShingle | Fabrice Cahen Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975) Histoire, Médecine et Santé induced abortion hospital care pain bad treatments |
| title | Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975) |
| title_full | Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975) |
| title_fullStr | Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975) |
| title_short | Soin, refus de soin ou maltraitance ? Médecins et avortées dans les hôpitaux parisiens (1900-1975) |
| title_sort | soin refus de soin ou maltraitance medecins et avortees dans les hopitaux parisiens 1900 1975 |
| topic | induced abortion hospital care pain bad treatments |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/hms/797 |
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