| Sumario: | Our research analyzes continuities and changes that characterize the asylum model, between the years 1895-1987 from the analysis of a corpus of 4058 medical records belonging to Esteves Hospital of the Province of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. In this paper we focus on one unique case whose hospitalization goes almost her entire adult life till death. The analysis from Genre and “individual, social and political body” categories, able to visualize how psychiatry express changing and arbitrary nature of genre and social relations identified as diagnostic signs, at different times in history. Thus the analysis of the past, inquiring about how medical practice becomes a science of “real things” in appearance, enables discussion about present and future in mental health care
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