The human body as field of conflict between discourses |
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Authors: | Kimsma Gerrit K Leeuwen Evert van |
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Institution: | Center for Philosophy and Medical Ethics, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, The Netherlands. gk.kimsma@vumc.nl |
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Abstract: | The approach to AIDS as a disease and a threat for social discrimination is used as an example to illustrate a conceptual
thesis. This thesis is a claim that concerns what we call a medical issue or not, what is medicalised or needs to be demedicalised.
In the friction between medicalisation and demedicalisation as discursive strategies the latter approach can only be effected
through the employment of discourses or discursive strategies other than medicine, such as those of the law and of economics.
These discourses each realise different values, promote a different subject, and have a different concept of man. The concept
of discourse is briefly outlined against concepts such as the linear growth concept of science and the growth model of science
as changes in paradigm. The issue of testing for AIDS shows a conflict between the medical and the legal discourse and illustrates
the title of our contribution: the human body as field of conflict between discourses. |
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