The skin as a “social organ”. A humanistic medical approach

 

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Autor: Pérez Calvo, María del Mar
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2020
Descripción:This process of inquiry begins with the researcher's search and interest in finding medical texts that unify the exact scientific part with the social scientific part that should compose all work whose object of study is human, given how difficult and almost null it became. To find a research trend that unites these two approaches, we started a first document that aims to give the human being affected by their health, in this case the skin, that is, dermatological, a social face that goes beyond the clinic, a somewhat holistic view of the patient that includes the person and their relationships and actions with and in their environment. In an attempt to give form and unity to two elements that until today have been seen by many researchers as separate, we have used here a focus on the skin, as a political or social subject, because the skin is the organ that serves as a letter of presentation of the human body to the exterior, hence we use the name of “political/social organ”, therefore anchored in all the duties and restrictions that are imposed on the body itself. From our perspective, we propose different ways in which the human body (from the skin organ) enters a power mechanism that explores it, breaks it up and recomposes it, transforming it into a “social skin”.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/42029
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/42029
Palabra clave:Social skin, political skin, political organ, dermatology, skin, integumentary pathology
Piel social, piel política, órgano político, dermatología, piel, patología tegumentaria