Medicalización de la vida

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06/2015
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Sociedade Brasileira de Bioética
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Revista Brasileira de Bioética
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La medicalización de la vida tiene que ver con la creencia fundamental de que la medicina puede afectar, decisivamente, todos los acontecimientos de la vida humana. Esta creencia se sustenta en el supuesto de que la vida es básicamente una cuestión médica, en cuanto ha quedado reducida a su concepto biológico, y es la medicina, con su saber científico y poder técnico, la que la sostiene. En el texto se analizan las ideas que mantienen operativa esta creencia. Para ello, considera la resignificación, a la luz de la ciencia, de los conceptos de cuerpo, enfermedad y salud, convirtiéndolos en lo que Agamben denomina sagrados inmanentes, y el papel que cumplen la medicina basada en la evidencia, la prevención y el medicamento en esa resignificación. Finalmente, asocia la medicalización con la biopolítica considerando el uso que hace esta última de la medicina a la hora de establecer juicios morales y legales.
The medicalization of life has to do with a fundamental belief that medicine can decisively affect all events of human life. This belief is based on the assumption that life is basically a medical issue, as it has been reduced to its biological concept, and it is medicine, with its scientific knowledge and technical power that supports it. This text presents an analysis of the ideas that sustain this belief. To do so, it considers the resignification, in the light of science, of the concepts of body, sickness and health, turning them into what Agamben calls the immanent sacred, and the role played by the evidencebased medicine, the prevention and by the medication in this resignification. Finally, it associates medicalization with biopolitics, considering the use that the latter makes of medicine to establish moral and legal judgments.
The medicalization of life has to do with a fundamental belief that medicine can decisively affect all events of human life. This belief is based on the assumption that life is basically a medical issue, as it has been reduced to its biological concept, and it is medicine, with its scientific knowledge and technical power that supports it. This text presents an analysis of the ideas that sustain this belief. To do so, it considers the resignification, in the light of science, of the concepts of body, sickness and health, turning them into what Agamben calls the immanent sacred, and the role played by the evidencebased medicine, the prevention and by the medication in this resignification. Finally, it associates medicalization with biopolitics, considering the use that the latter makes of medicine to establish moral and legal judgments.
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