gregorio Marañon y Posadillo

Maramon y Posadillo, Gregorio

Gregorio Marañon y Posadillo was a Spanish doctor who devoted himself to the study of fashion, identifying three functions.

Gregorio Marañon y Posadillo (May 19, 1888-1960) was a Spanish doctor, writer and philosopher, born in Madrid. He devoted himself to the study of fashion and, in the essay Psychology of gesture and clothing, identifies the three functions of dressing in hierarchy, sexuality and defense against the cold. But he owes his fame to endocrinology, of which he was one of the European pioneers. He graduated very young and at the age of 21 he was awarded the “Martínez Molina” prize for medicine. For several years he held the chair of biology at the University of Madrid and was then appointed director of medical pathology at the general

hospital. In 1936, when the civil war broke out, he moved to Argentina; in 1946 he returned to Madrid.
He also wrote various works on history and the social sciences, seen from the psychological as well as the pathological side: Tres ensayos sobre la vida sexual (The problem of the sexes, 1926) and La evoluci n de la sexualidad y los estados intersexuales (The evolution of sexuality and Intersex Stages, 1930). More rigorous from a scientific point of view are the biographies on the philosopher Juan Luis Vives from 1942 and on the Spanish scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal from 1950.

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