Des Abus de la castration chez la femme.

PICHEVIN (Roland)

Verlag: Paris, G. Steinheil, 1890, 1890

Beschreibung

1 vol. in-8 (22 x 13.5 cm), XX, 124 pp., broché, couverture muette moderne, très bon état. Edition originale rare. Cet ouvrage est un plaidoyer contre l'abus de l'ablation des ovaires alors en vogue non seulement dans des affections gynécologiques variées (métrorragies, dysménorrhée etc.) mais aussi dans l'épilepsie, la folie, la nymphomanie et surtout dans l'hystérie. Roland Pichevin (1857-1914) fut interne des hôpitaux de Paris. REFERENCES: Masson JM: A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century, p. 191 : "An excellent overview with a fine bibliography. This is the only nineteenth-century work I found that unqualifiedly opposes castration of women as barbarous, inhumane torture."; Finn M: Female Sterilization and Artificial Insemination at the French Fin de Siècle: facts and fictions, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2009, 18(1), 26-43; Walusinski O: Georges Gilles de la Tourette: Beyond the eponym, p. 326: "Surgical excesses were such that Roland Pichevin (1857-1914) wrote his 1889 thesis on them. Pichevin also underscored the fact that compression of the ovaries is mostly a compression of the muscular wall. Highlighting the frequency of deaths secondary to the operation, Pichevin concluded: 'one has no right to test a remedy that is worse than the disease, as the disease does not endanger the patient?s life'. ". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 740-PIC

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Des Abus de la castration chez la femme.

Verlag: Paris, G. Steinheil, 1890

Erscheinungsdatum: 1890

Einband: Couverture souple

Zustand: Très bon

Auflage: Edition originale