La medicalización de la vida: hibridaciones ante la dicotomía Naturaleza/Cultura
AUTOR(ES)
Sy, Anahi
FONTE
Ciênc. saúde coletiva
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2018-05
RESUMO
Abstract This paper aims to analyze the process of medicalization in current societies, starting from the description of the way in which medicine gradually appropriated various aspects of everyday life that were once part of the life cycle of people. At the theoretical level, we are based on authors such as Descola and Latour, who problematize the dichotomy between Nature and Culture, and propose the need to think from a superior episteme. Methodologically, this theoretical proposal enables an analysis of the medicalization that can illuminate what is hidden in the discourse and biomedical practices: the sociocultural, political and economic processes that are part of these “objects” of Medicine. From this perspective, the presentation of them as scientific facts, objectively isolatable and manipulable by medical science, is in crisis. Thus, our analysis, based on the concept of “quasi-objects” or “hybrids”, problematizes such objectification, while providing critical tools to reflect on the medicalization of life in today’s societies.
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