Different aspirations: medicine, activism and uterine vacuum aspiration technology in Spain (1960s-1980s).

IF 1.1 2区 哲学 Q4 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
María Mundi-López, Agata Ignaciuk
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Abstract

In this article we trace a biography of vacuum aspiration in Spain between the 1960s and 1980s. Analysing the local but transnationally connected history of vacuum aspiration during late Francoism and the democratic transition, we argue that this technology was since the mid-1960s reincarnated in mainstream medical discourse as vacuum curettage, presented as a major medical innovation in diagnosis and therapy. While abortion activists working at the end of the 1970s emphasized the group and political components of a technique they called the 'Karman method', doctors performing illegal abortions within the family planning network defined vacuum aspiration in terms of safety and medical innovation. As we demonstrate, this technique embodied meanings that at times overlapped, at others conflicted, contingent on whether aspirations were linked to medical innovation, pro-abortion activism, or social justice.

不同的愿望:医学,激进主义和子宫真空抽吸技术在西班牙(1960 - 80年代)。
在这篇文章中,我们追溯了20世纪60年代至80年代西班牙真空抽吸的传记。我们分析了佛朗哥统治晚期和民主转型期间真空抽吸的本地但跨国联系的历史,认为这项技术自20世纪60年代中期以来在主流医学话语中以真空刮刮的形式转世,作为诊断和治疗方面的一项重大医学创新。在1970年代末工作的堕胎活动人士强调他们称之为“卡门方法”的技术的群体和政治成分时,在计划生育网络内进行非法堕胎的医生从安全和医疗创新的角度定义了真空抽吸。正如我们所展示的,这种技术体现的含义有时重叠,有时冲突,取决于愿望是否与医疗创新、支持堕胎的激进主义或社会正义有关。
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Medical History
Medical History 医学-科学史与科学哲学
CiteScore
1.60
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25
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Medical History is a refereed journal devoted to all aspects of the history of medicine and health, with the goal of broadening and deepening the understanding of the field, in the widest sense, by historical studies of the highest quality. It is also the journal of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. The membership of the Editorial Board, which includes senior members of the EAHMH, reflects the commitment to the finest international standards in refereeing of submitted papers and the reviewing of books. The journal publishes in English, but welcomes submissions from scholars for whom English is not a first language; language and copy-editing assistance will be provided wherever possible.
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