Representations of the body in the age of technoscience: an ethical reflection

ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: Three things are analyzed in this text. First, the formation of the machine-body of the modern world, it means, the modeling of the existence according to a technologic rationality wangled and administered by modern institutions like the family, the school, the job and the clini...

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Published inRevista gerencia y políticas de salud Vol. 11; no. 23; pp. 85 - 96
Main Authors Estrada-mesa, Diego Alejandro, Espinal-Correa, Claudia Elena
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published 01.07.2012
Subjects
Body symbolism
Dualism
Objectivity
Rationality
Reason
Representations of the body
Social control
Subjectivity
World order
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ISSN1657-7027

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Summary:ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: Three things are analyzed in this text. First, the formation of the machine-body of the modern world, it means, the modeling of the existence according to a technologic rationality wangled and administered by modern institutions like the family, the school, the job and the clinic. Second, the implantation in the life of subject-object dualism, matter which will be administered and initiated by medicine and scientific technical reason, main pillars of the modern age. Culturally humankind will have an antagonistic relationship with things, nature and the others. With this, it will be established a vertical relationship with 'world of life' where really important is control, manipulation, the domain and the maintenance of order through technique. Finally, it becomes evident the ethic problem which comes out before the establishment of a way of rationality that covers up, hide and changes the existing of that 'vital world'. // ABSTRACT IN SPANISH: Tres cuestiones se analizan en el presente artículo. Primero, la formación del cuerpo-máquina del mundo moderno, es decir, el modelamiento de la existencia conforme a una racionalidad tecnológica agenciada y administrada por instituciones modernas como la familia, la escuela, el trabajo y la clínica. Segundo, la implantación en la vida del dualismo sujeto-objeto, cuestión que será gestionada por la medicina y la razón técnico-científica, pilares primordiales de la época moderna. Culturalmente el hombre pasará a tener una relación antagónica con las cosas y con los otros. A partir de esto se establecerá una relación vertical con el "mundo de la vida", donde lo importante es el control, la manipulación y el dominio de la naturaleza a través de la técnica. Por último, se evidencia el problema ético que surge ante el establecimiento de esta forma de racionalidad, poderosos dispositivos que encubren, ocultan y desvían el existir de ese "mundo vital". Reprinted by permission of the: Revista Gerencia y Políticas de Salud
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ISSN:1657-7027