HIST 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Heredity, Michel Foucault
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Hist-347: lecture 10: the sexologists part 1: the rise of sexology. Michael foucault; perceived the 19c not as an age of silence but an age which spawned discourse about sexuality. Sex emerged as a distinct field of psychology. -related to: (1) development of medical practices and ideas: evolution of medical profession; lucrative markets in prescribing cures for nervous disorders linked to sex. As doctor became more professionalized, they gained in prestige in prestige, status and authority. They had a vested interest in investigating the wide range behviroual disorder that seem to be inflicting 19century population. they range from nervousness. Nerve complaints; increase pace of overliving, seing as illnesses of civilization, they prescribe drugs, etc for these modern diseases. The development of medical practices and ideas. audiences to be analyzed. (2) growth of institutions (asylums, prisons, factories, schools) with captive. Large scale institutions, all of which created new groups of people to be observed studied and classified.
