期刊名称：Eä : Revista de Humanidades Médicas & Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
电子版ISSN：1852-4680
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：63
出版社：ISO-CYTE
摘要：By the second decade of the twentieth century, the use of radiation therapy methods was spreading in international scientific centers. Meanwhile, the application of radiation was quite extensive among gynecologists treating cervical cancer in important hospitals in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. However, the particular conditions in which research on these methods took place, and the very definition of the therapeutic criteria, were part of an intricate process, that combined typical reasoning of the local surgical tradition, decentralized medical practices, institutional boundaries, and professional interest in the control of the treatment. We inquire about these topics, analyzing a corpus of notes, articles, thesis and discussions that took place in the Argentinian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (RAOG for its initials in Spanish), which was the first scientific and medical production in the country that integrated gynecology as its leading medical specialty. We chose these productions since the first issue, released at the beginning of 1917, till the year 1919, included, recognizing this time gap as an inaugural moment in the debates around the definition of the therapeutic approach for the control of the cervical cancer, in a context of recent reception of the new technologies of radiation therapy by the local specialists.
关键词：Cervical cancer; radiation therapy; therapeutic approach; Sociology of science anda technology; Buenos Aires’s gynecologists.
