Monopoly on doubt: Post-mortem examinations in Israel, 1950s–1980s

IF 0.6 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY Social History of Medicine Pub Date : 2024-01-13 DOI:10.1093/shm/hkad101
Benny Nuriely, Liat Kozma
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This article examines the durability of high postmortem examination rates in Israel between the 1950s-1980s. Previous studies overlooked the issue of medical authority and the social history of autopsy, focusing on policy, technological development, and conflict between science and religion. By contrast, our analysis brings together the medical interest in unlimited research of dead bodies and the power relations between doctors and subaltern groups in Israel. Based on the Israeli State Archives, the Hebrew University Archives, and the daily press, we argue that medical biopolitical aspirations and the public shaped the history of postmortem examinations in Israel. High rates were embedded in the medical construction of doubt regarding the cause of death that only physicians could resolve by autopsy. Civilian protests led to a temporary decrease in the 1960s, while political and medical intervention brought about a gradual resurgence in postmortem rates in the 1980s.
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本文研究了 20 世纪 50 年代至 80 年代期间以色列高尸检率的持续性。以往的研究忽视了医学权威问题和尸检的社会历史,重点关注政策、技术发展以及科学与宗教之间的冲突。相比之下,我们的分析汇集了医学界对尸体无限制研究的兴趣以及以色列医生与次等群体之间的权力关系。根据以色列国家档案馆、希伯来大学档案馆和每日新闻,我们认为医学生物政治愿望和公众塑造了以色列尸检的历史。只有医生才能通过尸检解决死因的疑问,而高比例的尸检是医学构造的一部分。20 世纪 60 年代,民间抗议导致尸检率暂时下降,而 20 世纪 80 年代,政治和医疗干预使尸检率逐渐回升。
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Social History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine 社会科学-科学史与科学哲学
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期刊介绍: Social History of Medicine , the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It is committed to publishing work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines. The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes, critical assessments of archives and sources, conference reports, up-to-date information on research in progress, a discussion point on topics of current controversy and concern, review articles, and wide-ranging book reviews.
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