“God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century

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Autor(a) principal: De Luca, Francesca
Data de Publicação: 2018
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35090
Resumo: In this article, I analyse the historical emergence of pain management in obstetric literature and practice and how it affected the constitution of a new epistemology of obstetrics in Portugal. The text draws largely on archival research on biomedical articles and theses from mid-19th up to early-20th-century Lisbon, revealing an emerging and shifting biomedical understanding of pain and the labouring body, the agency of the obstetrician, and the political role of obstetrics. The research is part of a longitudinal anthropological study of childbirth pain approached as a locus where affectivities, shifting ontologies and biopolitics merge. Rather than considering childbirth pain as a taken-for-granted physical phenomenon, its materialization within the specific biomedical and historical context of Portugal at the turn of the 20th century is analysed.
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spelling “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century“Deus foi o primeiro anestesista”: a obstetrícia e a dor em Lisboa, na viragem do século XXChildbirth labourPainPortuguese obstetricsAnaesthesiaIn this article, I analyse the historical emergence of pain management in obstetric literature and practice and how it affected the constitution of a new epistemology of obstetrics in Portugal. The text draws largely on archival research on biomedical articles and theses from mid-19th up to early-20th-century Lisbon, revealing an emerging and shifting biomedical understanding of pain and the labouring body, the agency of the obstetrician, and the political role of obstetrics. The research is part of a longitudinal anthropological study of childbirth pain approached as a locus where affectivities, shifting ontologies and biopolitics merge. Rather than considering childbirth pain as a taken-for-granted physical phenomenon, its materialization within the specific biomedical and historical context of Portugal at the turn of the 20th century is analysed.Analisa-se, neste artigo, a forma como a gestão da dor no parto surgiu na prática e na literatura obstétrica e como afetou a constituição de uma nova epistemologia. A partir de uma pesquisa de arquivo de artigos biomédicos e teses, produzidas em Lisboa, entre a segunda metade do século XIX e as primeiras décadas do século XX, pretende-se focar o conhecimento biomédico, emergente e incerto, sobre a dor e o corpo em trabalho de parto, a agência do obstetra e o papel político da obstetrícia. A pesquisa faz parte de um estudo antropológico longitudinal, com uma abordagem da dor como locus onde se fundam afetividades, ontologias em mudança e biopolíticas. Em vez de considerar a dor como um fenómeno físico tido como certo, pretende-se traçar a sua materialização no contexto biomédico e histórico português específico, na viragem do século XX.Centro em Rede de Investigação em AntropologiaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaDe Luca, Francesca2018-10-16T11:54:40Z20182018-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/35090eng0873-656110.4000/etnografica.5989info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:30:49Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/35090Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:49:38.901319Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century
“Deus foi o primeiro anestesista”: a obstetrícia e a dor em Lisboa, na viragem do século XX
title “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century
spellingShingle “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century
De Luca, Francesca
Childbirth labour
Pain
Portuguese obstetrics
Anaesthesia
title_short “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century
title_full “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century
title_fullStr “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century
title_full_unstemmed “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century
title_sort “God was the first anaesthetist”: obstetrics and pain in Lisbon at the turn of the 20th century
author De Luca, Francesca
author_facet De Luca, Francesca
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv De Luca, Francesca
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Childbirth labour
Pain
Portuguese obstetrics
Anaesthesia
topic Childbirth labour
Pain
Portuguese obstetrics
Anaesthesia
description In this article, I analyse the historical emergence of pain management in obstetric literature and practice and how it affected the constitution of a new epistemology of obstetrics in Portugal. The text draws largely on archival research on biomedical articles and theses from mid-19th up to early-20th-century Lisbon, revealing an emerging and shifting biomedical understanding of pain and the labouring body, the agency of the obstetrician, and the political role of obstetrics. The research is part of a longitudinal anthropological study of childbirth pain approached as a locus where affectivities, shifting ontologies and biopolitics merge. Rather than considering childbirth pain as a taken-for-granted physical phenomenon, its materialization within the specific biomedical and historical context of Portugal at the turn of the 20th century is analysed.
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