Human radiation for medicine, spiritism and hypnosis in Argentina: scientific controversies around vital radiations (1880-1930).

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 Q4 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
History of Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-14 DOI:10.1177/0957154X241246385
Alejandro Parra
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In the mid-nineteenth century, magnetic theories penetrated other recognized medical practices in Argentina in order to rationalize their procedures, in a culture that accepted and validated magnetism as a positive science. At the start of the twentieth century, mesmerists created a society, published books and journals, and carried out a large welfare programme; there were public lectures, and magnetic treatment for spiritualists and the general public, emphasizing the therapeutic properties of mesmerism. Magnetologists/mesmerists measured vital radiation and built devices using sensitive objects as 'physical' evidence of it. There was an interest in acquiring and using artefacts to measure human radiation useful in medicine. Magnetic practices survived until the end of the 1920s, when they lost importance.

阿根廷的人体辐射医学、灵异主义和催眠术:围绕生命辐射的科学争议(1880-1930 年)。
十九世纪中叶,磁学理论渗透到阿根廷其他公认的医疗实践中,使其程序合理化,当时的文化接受并认可磁学是一门积极的科学。二十世纪初,磁疗师成立了一个协会,出版了书籍和期刊,并实施了一项大型福利计划;举办了公开讲座,并为灵修人士和普通大众提供磁疗,强调磁疗的治疗特性。磁学家/迷魂术士测量生命辐射,并利用敏感物体制造装置,作为生命辐射的 "物理 "证据。人们对获取和使用文物来测量对医学有用的人体辐射很感兴趣。磁学实践一直延续到 20 世纪 20 年代末,之后便失去了重要性。
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期刊介绍: History of Psychiatry publishes research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of the history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures.
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