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Models of Corporeality and Controversies Around Puberty
Virginie Vinelsubject
03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicine030225 pediatricsIntervention (counseling)030212 general & internal medicinePsychologyhumanities3. Good healthDevelopmental psychologydescription
This chapter investigates the plurality of models proposed by medicine to observe the body between childhood and adolescence during the twentieth century. Models vary if the approach is anatomo-clinical, bio-psycho-social, photographical, or endocrinological. However, all these approaches aimed not only to better understand the pubertal process but also to define what is the “true puberty” and what constitutes a deviation from its “normal” course, while legitimating medical intervention. The analysis of the American controversy on the precocious onset of puberty, at the end of the 1990s, reveals not only the types of changing bodies, but also the types of children and adolescents that are depicted and produced by contemporary medicine.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 |