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Raúl Zamorano Farías
En este trabajo, y sobre la base de la teoría general de los sistemas sociales, se problematiza el fenómeno comunicativo de la medicalización y sus acoplamientos con el riesgo y el incremento de las demandas al sistema de la medicina. Si el sistema de la medicina tiene un monopolio comunicativo en el tratamiento de la salud/enfermedad y de todo lo que esto produce, deviene importante señalar con claridad desde dónde se observa el fenómeno de la medicalización (desde el sistema de la salud, desde el sistema del derecho, desde la opinión pública, desde el sistema científico) y cuáles son que la estructuras sociales disponibles para observar estas interacciones y acoplamientos. Es decir, preguntarse por los sentidos que construyen el ‘concepto’ medicalización y que dan cabida al análisis de prácticas no especializadas que se apropian de elementos que son, al mismo tiempo tan normales como patológicos.
In this work, and on the basis of the general theory of social systems, the communicative phenomenon of medicalization and its links with the risk and increasing demands on the medicine system are problematized. If the medicine system has a communicative monopoly in the treatment of health / disease and everything that this produces, it becomes important to clearly indicate where the phenomenon of medicalization is observed (from the health system, from the law system, from public opinion, from the scientific system) and what are the social structures available to observe these interactions and links. That is, asking about the senses that build the ‘concept’ medicalization and that allow the analysis of non-specialized practices that appropriate elements that are, at the same time, as normal as pathological.
In this work, and on the basis of the general theory of social systems, the communicative phenomenon of medicalization and its links with the risk and increasing demands on the medicine system are problematized. If the medicine system has a communicative monopoly in the treatment of health / disease and everything that this produces, it becomes important to clearly indicate where the phenomenon of medicalization is observed (from the health system, from the law system, from public opinion, from the scientific system) and what are the social structures available to observe these interactions and links. That is, asking about the senses that build the ‘concept’ medicalization and that allow the analysis of non-specialized practices that appropriate elements that are, at the same time, as normal as pathological.
