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- Title
Una aproximación simétrica al cáncer de mama: heterogeneidad, regulación y corporización.
- Authors
Castillo Sepúlveda, Jorge Leandro; Tirado Serrano, Francisco Javier; Rosengarten, Marsha
- Abstract
Cancer is commonly described as the uncontrolled reproduction of abnormal cells in the body. This definition enacts the disease as a local process, whose temporality is linear. In this article we challenge this approach, from a case study on breast cancer, analysed from the actor-network theory. Starting from the conception of disease as a material-semiotic trajectory, we establish the role of regulation and the processes of pre-symptomatic diagnosis in the materiality of cancer. Echoing the proposal of Alfred North Whitehead, we define cancer as a potential object. Then, we describe how biomedical propositions are articulated in patients, affect their anatomy and establish an authentic embodiment, which acts as a socio-material assemblage. We conclude that it is necessary to think about interventions that consider the heterogeneity of the material aspects that come with cancer, conceived from this perspective.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer diagnosis; ETIOLOGY of diseases; ACTOR-network theory; HEALTH counseling; WHITEHEAD, Alfred North, 1861-1947
- Publication
Athenea Digital (Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social), 2012, Vol 12, Issue 3, p163
- ISSN
2014-4539
- Publication type
Article