‘We Won’t Ban Castrating Pervs Despite What Europe Might Think!’ : Czech Medical Sexology and the Practice of Therapeutic Castration
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00107477" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00107477 - isvavai.cz</a>
Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/we-wont-ban-castrating-pervs-despite-what-europe-might-think-czech-medical-sexology-and-the-practice-of-therapeutic-castration/33F2D0706DFACCEB04DC35D11AEA9655" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/we-wont-ban-castrating-pervs-despite-what-europe-might-think-czech-medical-sexology-and-the-practice-of-therapeutic-castration/33F2D0706DFACCEB04DC35D11AEA9655</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2019.30" target="_blank" >10.1017/mdh.2019.30</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
‘We Won’t Ban Castrating Pervs Despite What Europe Might Think!’ : Czech Medical Sexology and the Practice of Therapeutic Castration
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The Czech Republic holds one of the highest numbers of men labelled as sexual delinquents worldwide who have undergone the irreversible process of surgical castration – a policy that has elicited strong international criticism. Nevertheless, Czech sexology has not changed its attitude towards ‘therapeutic castration’, which remains widely accepted and practised. In this paper, we analyse the negotiation of expertise supporting castration and demonstrate how the changes in institutional matrices and networks of experts (Eyal 2013) have impacted the categorisation of patients and the methods of treatment. Our research shows the great importance of historical development that tied Czech sexology with the state. Indeed, Czech sexology has been profoundly institutionalised since the early 1970s. In accordance with the state politics of that era, officially named Normalisation, sexology focused on sexual deviants and began creating a treatment programme that included therapeutic castration. This practice, the aim of which is to protect society from sex offenders, has changed little since. We argue that it is the expert–state alliance that enables Czech sexologists to preserve the status quo in the treatment of sexual delinquents despite international pressure. Our research underscores the continuity in medical practice despite the regime change in 1989. With regard to previous scholarship on state-socialist Czechoslovakia, we argue that it was the medical mainstream that developed and sustained disciplining and punitive features.
Název v anglickém jazyce
‘We Won’t Ban Castrating Pervs Despite What Europe Might Think!’ : Czech Medical Sexology and the Practice of Therapeutic Castration
Popis výsledku anglicky
The Czech Republic holds one of the highest numbers of men labelled as sexual delinquents worldwide who have undergone the irreversible process of surgical castration – a policy that has elicited strong international criticism. Nevertheless, Czech sexology has not changed its attitude towards ‘therapeutic castration’, which remains widely accepted and practised. In this paper, we analyse the negotiation of expertise supporting castration and demonstrate how the changes in institutional matrices and networks of experts (Eyal 2013) have impacted the categorisation of patients and the methods of treatment. Our research shows the great importance of historical development that tied Czech sexology with the state. Indeed, Czech sexology has been profoundly institutionalised since the early 1970s. In accordance with the state politics of that era, officially named Normalisation, sexology focused on sexual deviants and began creating a treatment programme that included therapeutic castration. This practice, the aim of which is to protect society from sex offenders, has changed little since. We argue that it is the expert–state alliance that enables Czech sexologists to preserve the status quo in the treatment of sexual delinquents despite international pressure. Our research underscores the continuity in medical practice despite the regime change in 1989. With regard to previous scholarship on state-socialist Czechoslovakia, we argue that it was the medical mainstream that developed and sustained disciplining and punitive features.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
—
OECD FORD obor
30300 - Health sciences
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
<a href="/cs/project/GJ16-10639Y" target="_blank" >GJ16-10639Y: Intimní život v období státního socialismu v komparativní perspektivě. Sexualita, expertíza a moc ve střední a východní Evropě (1948-1989)</a><br>
Návaznosti
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2019
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Medical History
ISSN
0025-7273
e-ISSN
2048-8343
Svazek periodika
63
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
3
Stát vydavatele periodika
GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska
Počet stran výsledku
22
Strana od-do
330-351
Kód UT WoS článku
000471877200005
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85067384274