História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos ISSN: 0104-5970
[email protected] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Brasil González Soriano, Fabricio Como la vara de Moisés: la herencia patológica como argumento para la vigilancia médica del matrimonio consanguíneo en México, 1870-1900 História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos, vol. 16, núm. 1, enero-marzo, 2009, pp. 35-52 Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=386138041003 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Like Moses’ Staff GONZÁLEZ-SORIANO, Fabricio, Like Moses’ Staff: Pathological Inheritance Like Moses’ Staff: as an Argument for Medical Vigilance of Consanguine Marriage in Mexico, Pathological Inheritance 1870-1900. História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, v.16, n.1, as an Argument for Jan.-Mar. 2009. Available at: Medical Vigilance of http://www.scielo.br. This paper analyzes the discussions in Consanguine Marriage in the field of legal medicine in Mexico about the prudence of regulations Mexico, 1870-1900 concerning intermarriage that were decreed in the civil codes for the Federal District of 1871 and 1884. It shows that the heated debate forced the authors of the regulations to struggle for the need for medical vigilance of marriages between relatives, as a preventive measure sustained in a nihilistic vision of the pathological inheritance. The paper concludes by proposing a philosophical analysis that abandons the old fields of the “external” and the “internal”.