SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE BODY
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Body, Health, Normal, Pathological.Abstract
The discipline Special Topics in Health, offered for doctoral students of the Graduate Program in Education and Health in Childhood and Adolescence, by Profa. In the first semester of 2019, Dr. Amália Neide Covic, at the Campus São Paulo of the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), more specifically in the Hospital of the Support Group for Adolescents and Children with Cancer (GRAACC), aimed to Critical Theory and to develop emancipatory reflexive attitudes about the deterministic aspects in relation to what is normal and pathological in modern societies. The classes were organized and developed from two theoretical articulations that have strong implications in the practices in Health: the naturalization of the disease was analyzed critically and the separation of the manifestation of the illness of the body of the individual and its contextualization within a system of force and power. Based on this proposal, Prof. Covic (2019), used the following theoretical foundations: G. Canguilhem, H-G. Gadamer, W. Heisenberg, G. Agamben, T. Luckmann and P. Berger, as well as other no less important authors cited throughout the text. Some topics covered in the classes were: the normal and the pathological; the use of bodies and the character of health. From the reading, discussions and written observations made in class, this essay was born with the purpose of making a brief critical reflection about the representations and social perceptions about the body. The theme is very controversial and extremely broad, with many interpretive theoretical strands, so the intention was only to reflect without end points in the discussions, but to contribute, based on certain theoretical references.
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