Open AccessCatalogando la diversidad del comportamiento humano: la nosología francesa decimonónica ante las conductas delictivas (1800-1855)
Author(s) -
José Martínez Pérez
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
asclepio
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.146
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1988-3102
pISSN - 0210-4466
DOI - 10.3989/asclepio.1996.v48.i2.399
Subject(s) - homicide , deviance (statistics) , meaning (existential) , psychology , diversity (politics) , humanities , sociology , social psychology , philosophy , poison control , medicine , human factors and ergonomics , psychotherapist , anthropology , mathematics , statistics , environmental health
This work aims to contribute to the study of the factors which influenced the process of the classification of the diversity of human behaviour. As a result this study will look at the changes in operation at the beginning of the nineteenth century regarding the classification of one type of deviant behaviour: homicide. The creation by French psychiatrists of the diagnostic category "monomanie homicide instintive" meant that certain types of homicide were no longer considered a crime and began to be regarded as forms of madness. The emergence and gradual disappearance of this morbid species of psychiatric classifications in the first half of the XIXth century illustrates how the assignation of aberrant behaviour to one kind or other of deviance depends on the way in which various factors are related: changes in scientific theories, permutations in the professional objectives of those who make the classifications, and the degree of social consensus which is achieved for the new meaning that the deviatory behaviour acquires on changing its position among the various forms of deviation.