Entre el bufete y el laboratorio. Paul Groussac y José Ingenieros en una polémica de 1903

Abstract

This article analyzes the transformation of the Argentine fields of intellectual production and circulation at the turn of the 20th Century from the vantage point of an apparently minor debate that took place in 1903 between the young physician José Ingenieros and the director of the National Library, Paul Groussac about the use of the term “psychiatrist”. By carrying out a “dense description” of this polemical exchange as a point of departure, the article sheds light on —borrowing from Carlo Ginzburg— “the framework of deeper historical tendencies” of Argentine culture.