Homosexualitat i perillositat social: bases mèdiques i científiques d'una llei tardofranquista

Autors/ores

  • Antoni Adam Donat
  • Àlvar Martínez Vidal

Resum

The Spanish Ley de Peligrosidad y Rehabilitación Social, promulgated in 1970 during the late Francoist regime and derogated ten years later at the beginning of the democracy, increased the social exclusion suffered by homosexual persons. This law considered homosexuality as a very perverse sexual tendency, potentially contagious and socially dangerous. This paper intends to identify the scientific bases in which this law was rooted, specially the psychiatric and legal medical arguments offered by legislators in order to justify a set of preventive and punitive actions against homosexual behaviour.

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Publicat

2008-11-24

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Secció

Jornada intercongressual de metges i biòlegs de llengua catalana