Las discusiones médicas sobre el certificado prenupcial en Latinoamérica: Brasil, México y Perú

Since the last years of the XIX century Latin America put her interest in reach, the economic progress and social that only she believed that could guarantee copying the great powers models like United States and the Europeans countries. Although, it could not make it, if as diagnosed the sanitarian...

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Autor principal: Almirón, Valeria Natividad
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RIHALC/article/view/15509
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Sumario:Since the last years of the XIX century Latin America put her interest in reach, the economic progress and social that only she believed that could guarantee copying the great powers models like United States and the Europeans countries. Although, it could not make it, if as diagnosed the sanitarians authorities, the population was threatened by the high increase of children with hereditary diseases because their parents suffered ´venereal´ diseases. In this context, the eugenics doctrine appeared solutions: the implementation of a medical prenuptial certificate before the marriage that would allow detecting the presence of a disease and thus preventing the marriage between sick persons. By this, the objective of this paper is to analyze the debates around this certificate, stop in the three paradigmatic cases of the region: Brazil, Mexico and Peru, at the same time to study and to compare the relevance that the certificate had like a regional social policy.