Abstract
Abstract The article deals with certain aspects of discriminating women through the relation between hypochondria and hysteria. It focuses mostly on the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century. The objective of the article is not to give an exhaustive analysis of these pathologies, but rather to give examples of how the changes in medicine influence the perception of women. The examples of these two pathologies show how medicine was dominated by the idea of an order of nature where woman could not be considered as an individual. Instead of healing, the function of medicine was often to use new knowledge to explain and approve a pre-existing order of nature.
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