GALINDO, Dolores Cristina Gomes.; LEMOS, Flávia Cristina Silveira.; LEE, Henrique de Oliveira.; RODRIGUES, Renata Vilela.
Résumé:
This paper aims at setting into discussion, in a theoretical essay format, the topic of
medicalization and pharmaceuticalization of existence. It discusses the multiplicity of events
that support medicalization and the field of struggles in which such situations take place and are
materialized into a subjectivizing pharmaceuticalization device. Thus, some features of Rodrigo
Souza Leão’s work are retrieved which argue on the dimensions of current subjectivizing
manners hatched out in the pharmaceutical industry economic policy and that set freedom
practices. One concludes, by the end of the paper, that diffusion of medicalization and pharmaceuticalization of life is a widespread practice and, therefore, resistances targeting them need to
be increasingly expanded and articulated aiming at producing effects in current society to open
gaps that reverberate non medicalizing practices in a tension field of forces. We propose that
genealogy of resistances to medicalization of existences should be articulated with the
composition of non-conformist files capable of evidencing that, in spite of the pharmaceuticalization
power in setting up our subjectifications, freedom practices continue to be plotted in their
interstices.