Curing the Passions: Construction of the Physician Persona in the Late Eighteenth Century
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Physician, Passions, Intimacy, Authority, EthicsAbstract
The aim of this article is to discuss some features of the physician’s figure in the European context in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. Two documents are analyzed: dissertations dealing on the influence and treatment of passions as phenomena related to illness, whose authors (Clément-Joseph Tissot y William Falconer) use their discourses to present themselves as bearers of a key ethical function, the emotional regulation of (sick) people. The hypothesis claims these therapeutical practices that unfold the power of the physician beyond the body reaching moral life have been crucial for the understanding of the strengthen of the physician’s scientific persona as outcome of a genealogical process. This process implies some medical theories about the body functioning and the techniques of a scientific beholder and the constitution of a kind of authority grounded on this knowledge and on the growing of an intimacy between physician and patient.
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