In this article, I draw on two sets of sources to explore how Peruvian doctors tried to make sense of what had driven a man to engage in necrophilia in late 1942. On the one hand, I examine the case history and other related documentation that I located in Lima’s psychiatric hospital. On the other, I study a detailed article written on the case by Dr Lucio D. Castro and published in 1943. Together, these sources provide rich evidence on how Peruvian doctors addressed what they framed as an abnormality of the sexual instinct and, in turn, as a mental disorder. But the case also provides a fascinating vista on a major taboo—sex with the dead—and more generally on the history of “perversion” and therefore on the history of sexuality in Peru. I pay particular attention to how doctors mobilized an eclectic “theoretical artillery” of biomedical knowledge in trying to explain the man’s psychopathology. I argue that through their “unruly appropriation” of sexological knowledge, doctors like Castro sought to make meaningful contributions to a global sexual science while proposing means to channel sexuality away from deviant forms in a manner consonant with broader projects of sexual regulation that Peru and other countries promoted at the time.

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恋尸癖、精神病学和性学：20 世纪中叶秘鲁性科学的形成

在本文中，我利用两组资料来探索秘鲁医生如何试图弄清是什么驱使一个人在 1942 年末从事恋尸癖。一方面，我检查了我的病历和其他相关文件位于利马的精神病院。另一方面，我研究了 Lucio D. Castro 博士就该病例撰写并于 1943 年发表的详细文章。这些资料共同提供了丰富的证据，说明秘鲁医生如何解决他们认为是性本能异常的问题，进而解决这些问题。 ，作为一种精神障碍。但这个案例也提供了一个关于一个主要禁忌——与死者发生性关系——以及更普遍地关于“变态”历史以及秘鲁的性历史的迷人视角。我特别关注医生如何动员生物医学知识的折衷“理论大炮”试图解释该男子的精神病理学。我认为，通过他们对性知识的“不守规矩的挪用”，像卡斯特罗这样的医生试图为全球性科学做出有意义的贡献，同时提出以符合秘鲁和其他国家更广泛的性监管项目的方式引导性行为远离异常形式的方法。当时提倡的国家。