Doctors, families and the industry in the clinic: the management of ‘intersex’ children in Swiss paediatric medicine (1945–1970)
| Autor: | Flurin Condrau, Rita Gobet, Jürg C. Streuli, Marion Hulverscheidt, Andrea Althaus, Mirjam Janett |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Condrau, Flurin |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
History DSD Medicine (miscellaneous) 610 Medicine & health 050905 science studies Diagnostic tools ‘Intersex’ Medicine 0601 history and archaeology 2900 General Nursing General Nursing Patient records business.industry 05 social sciences Gender Paediatrics 2701 Medicine (miscellaneous) Articles 06 humanities and the arts 060105 history of science technology & medicine 990 History of other areas Family medicine 10222 Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine 0509 other social sciences business 1202 History |
| Zdroj: | Janett, Mirjam; Althaus, Andrea; Hulverscheidt, Marion; Gobet, Rita; Streuli, Jürg; Condrau, Flurin (2021). Doctors, families and the industry in the clinic: The management of ‘intersex’ children in Swiss paediatric medicine (1945–1970). Medical history, 65(3), pp. 286-305. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/mdh.2021.17 Medical History |
| Popis: | This manuscript investigates clinical decisions and the management of ‘intersex’ children at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich between 1945 and 1970. This was an era of rapid change in paediatric medicine, something that was mirrored in Zurich. Andrea Prader, the principal figure in this paper, started his career during the late 1940s and was instrumental in moving the hospital towards focusing more on expertise in chronic diseases. Starting in 1950, he helped the Zurich hospital to become the premier centre for the treatment of so-called ‘intersex’ children. It is this treatment, and, in particular, the clinical decision-making that is the centre of our article. This field of medicine was itself not stable. Rapid development of diagnostic tools led to the emergence of new diagnostic categories, the availability of new drugs changed the management of the children’s bodies and an increased number of medical experts became involved in decision-making, a particular focus lay with the role of the children themselves and of course with their families. How involved were children or their families in an era widely known as the golden age of medicine? |
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