Buenos Aires mesmérica. Hipnosis y magnetismo en la cultura y la ciencia de la capital argentina (1870-1900)
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.14.2014.56.7-26Keywords:
Medicina, Hipnosis, Curanderismo, Espiritismo, Argentina, Siglo XIX, Medicine, Hypnosis, Quackery, Spiritism, 20th CenturyAbstract
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el problema del hipnotismo en la ciencia y la cultura de Buenos Aires durante el último cuarto del siglo xix. Desde el momento en que la medicina argentina comenzó a interesarse teórica y prácticamente por la hipnosis, se vio enfrentada a una multiplicidad de actores (espiritistas, ilusionistas, curanderos) que también hacían uso, con fines divergentes, de ese instrumento. En este texto se coloca el énfasis en la descripción de las tensiones y disputas sostenidas entre los médicos y sus competidores. Además de rastrear los profesionales que aportaron al estudio de la nueva terapia, se señalan las estrategias llevadas a cabo por los representantes de la ciencia oficial para acabar con otro tipo de utilizaciones del sonambulismo artificial.
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the topic of hypnotism in the science and the culture of Buenos Aires during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. When Argentine medicine became conceptually and practically interested in hypnosis it encountered a multiplicity of actors (spirititsts, illusionists, quacks) that also used it with different aims. This text intends to describe the tensions and disputes sustained between physicians and their competitors. In addition to pointing out which were the professionals that contributed to the study of the new therapy, this paper identifies the strategies carried out by representatives of the official science in order to finish with other uses of artificial somnambulism
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