Métabolisme et adaptation : l’objectivation des phénomènes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie (fin xixe-début xxe siècle)
At the intersection of the sociology of science and technology and the anthropology of the Living, this article explores how the measurement practices of physiological and sensory nutritional phenomena rely on a metric, energetic, and temporal understanding of the human being and its evolution. The...
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| description | At the intersection of the sociology of science and technology and the anthropology of the Living, this article explores how the measurement practices of physiological and sensory nutritional phenomena rely on a metric, energetic, and temporal understanding of the human being and its evolution. The article first analyzes the measurement practices of nutritional activity in hysterical patients conducted at the end of the 19th century by psychiatrists Constantin Empereur and Georges Gilles de La Tourette. It secondly examines the work of neurologists and psycho-physiologists Joanny Roux and Georges Noguès on the sensation of hunger and its pathological disappearance. The article suggests that while neurological psychiatry avoids a strictly mechanical approach to metabolism, psycho-physiological studies of hunger sensation reinforce a dynamic and adaptive reading of human nutrition, influenced by a Spencerian view of evolution. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a49c165e04964a6da91d58c261ac95032025-08-20T03:40:57ZfraÉditions de la SorbonneSocio-anthropologie1276-87071773-018X2025-06-0151557110.4000/14auzMétabolisme et adaptation : l’objectivation des phénomènes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie (fin xixe-début xxe siècle)Elsie MégretAt the intersection of the sociology of science and technology and the anthropology of the Living, this article explores how the measurement practices of physiological and sensory nutritional phenomena rely on a metric, energetic, and temporal understanding of the human being and its evolution. The article first analyzes the measurement practices of nutritional activity in hysterical patients conducted at the end of the 19th century by psychiatrists Constantin Empereur and Georges Gilles de La Tourette. It secondly examines the work of neurologists and psycho-physiologists Joanny Roux and Georges Noguès on the sensation of hunger and its pathological disappearance. The article suggests that while neurological psychiatry avoids a strictly mechanical approach to metabolism, psycho-physiological studies of hunger sensation reinforce a dynamic and adaptive reading of human nutrition, influenced by a Spencerian view of evolution.https://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/19039anorexiaevolutionmetabolismphysiological measurementpsychiatry |
| spellingShingle | Elsie Mégret Métabolisme et adaptation : l’objectivation des phénomènes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie (fin xixe-début xxe siècle) Socio-anthropologie anorexia evolution metabolism physiological measurement psychiatry |
| title | Métabolisme et adaptation : l’objectivation des phénomènes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie (fin xixe-début xxe siècle) |
| title_full | Métabolisme et adaptation : l’objectivation des phénomènes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie (fin xixe-début xxe siècle) |
| title_fullStr | Métabolisme et adaptation : l’objectivation des phénomènes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie (fin xixe-début xxe siècle) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Métabolisme et adaptation : l’objectivation des phénomènes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie (fin xixe-début xxe siècle) |
| title_short | Métabolisme et adaptation : l’objectivation des phénomènes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie (fin xixe-début xxe siècle) |
| title_sort | metabolisme et adaptation l objectivation des phenomenes physiologiques et sensoriels nutritifs en psychiatrie fin xixe debut xxe siecle |
| topic | anorexia evolution metabolism physiological measurement psychiatry |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/19039 |
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