Some Weak and Ill Beings.
Some Weak and Ill Beings.

The Topic of Race Degeneration and the Representations of the Corporality of the Rural Population in the Medical Discourse in Romania (1860‐1910)

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at studying a particular aspect of the image upon the corporality of Romanian peasants in the last decades of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th. he physicians are the creators of this discourse and image. They place an important topic on the public agenda: native race degeneration. In this particular context the image they portray upon the peasant, including his corporality, is an extremely dark one. he physicians’ peasant is an undernourished, alcoholised, sick being and, thus, on the verge of physical decadence.

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