Medicalização e devir: impasses existenciais na era da técnica

Abstract

The medicalization of society is a phenomenon that has been flagged by many authors since the nineteenth century, when the scientific knowledge spread by various social fields. But it was from the 1940s, with the introduction of psychiatric drugs, that this phenomenon has become increasingly intrusive in everyday life. While analyzing the relationship between medicine and technology we want to question the almost total life imprisonment in the meshes of a technical logic that aims to understand human existence by deterministic principles. There is the implication of a social practice, which through an entire technological apparatus, has transformed everyday life in a medical-pharmacological problem and is this practice that we want to understand. Seeking to elucidate how this technical way of thinking through the contemporary living, transforming situations, once considered natural to be faced in life, in episodes that deserve to be treated and solved by a set of knowledge eager to answer the dilemmas of human existence.