BODY (IN)DOCILE: BARIATRIC SURGERY IN ITS DISCIPLINARY AND BIOPOLITICAL EFFECT

Authors

  • Larissa Baldoíno da Paixão PUC Minas
  • Márcia Stengel PONTÍFICIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE MINAS GERAIS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n1p290-316

Keywords:

Obesity, Bariatric surgery, Disciplinary power, Biopolitics.

Abstract

Body appearance has a unique central role in the contemporary scenario.
It is in this context that obesity was considered by the World Health
Organization as a worldwide epidemic. Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
has become popular in recent decades as an option for the treatment this
condition. This study aims to interweave obesity as a medical-clinical
category and its relationship with forms of power. In its disciplinary effect,
the technique intervenes over the individual body making it more “docile”.
In its biopolitical effect, it defines conditions upon life based on quantitative
and universal terms. The obesity epidemic reflects the effects of a socio-economic model that has pervaded all spheres of human life and in which
nothing can be refused.

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Author Biographies

Larissa Baldoíno da Paixão, PUC Minas

Doutoranda pelo Programa de Pós-graduação de Psicologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais. Mestrado em Terapia Familiar Sistêmica pela Universidade de Sevilha/ ES (2008). Graduação em Psiclogia pela Faculdadde Ruy Barbosa/ BA (2004). 

Márcia Stengel, PONTÍFICIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE MINAS GERAIS

Professora doutora no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da PUC Minas. Endereço: Avenida Itaú, 525, 2º subsolo - Dom Cabral, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brasil. CEP: 30535-012. Telefone: (31) 3319-4568.

Published

2020-04-13

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