Los diagnósticos y las historias clínicas de mujeres en los hospicios de Buenos Aires entre 1900-1930

this paper analyzes the uniqueness of the associated issues with psychiatric diagnoses in alienated women between 1900 and 1930 in argentina that allow locating differences in the etiological assumptions that explain the mental illness between men and women. designs of clinical records of women in the hospital nacional de alienadas (now hospital moyano) and the asilo de lomas de zamora (now hospital interzonal esteves de temperley) are analyzed. data obtained with primary sources of medicine and psychiatry is intersected, which work on the particularity of alienation in women. it is inquired the causes and singular explanations that have been held in this historical context and their difference in those male patients for the same period.