Studies of medicine from the gender perspective
- Autores: María Isabel Burguete Azcárate
- Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 187-193
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The beginning of natural sciences came to predominate in medicine with the emergence of natural scientific thinking in the first half of the 19th century. A great deal of physiological progress in the 19th century was centered in Germany, where apparatus developed by physicists were judiciously used in physiological experiences. This trend is clearly illustrated in my previous article (Burguete, 2010).
Therefore, the creation of the Laboratories of Experimental Physiology, Histology, Toxicology and Pathological Anatomy was the result of the reorganization of the Medicine Faculty at Coimbra University in 1866-1872, according to the model of the Berlin School of Medicine.
In the sequence of this transition comes the initiation of experimental work providing better conditions for the learning process of medical sciences for the Coimbra faculty of Medicine. As the public understanding of science as well as scientific literacy became accessible to a wider public (women included), a kind of a revolution from the gender perspective naturally takes place in the world of knowledge, not only in Portugal but also in Germany and all around Europe. I will present only two cases studies: Portuguese and German.
