Hormone Stories in Argentina.Obesity in children and early diagnosis of pregnancy in the 1930s and 1940s

Abstract

This article inquires, from a gender perspective, knowledge production about hormones in Argentina, between the years 1930-1940. We understand that a historical analysis of scientific ideas and clinical practices allows explore how they involved on the social scenario which they belong, plus the institutional contexts where they are elaborated. We will focus on endocrinologist's Hospital de Niños de Buenos Aires perspective about obesity on childhood, and adipose genital sí­ndrome, andearly diagnosis of pregnancy and chorionic gonadotropin hormone in the 1930s and 1940s