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Nas últimas décadas, a intervenção sobre a vida na rua tem vindo a assumir um caráter crescentemente medicalizado, formatando-a como uma questão de anormalidade neuro-psiquiátrica individual. Com base na observação direta de diversos tipos de interações da vida na rua são discutidos vários exemplos da medicalização de condutas de sujeitos sem-abrigo. Estes deixam claro que medicalizar a vida na rua é um procedimento intrinsecamente “grotesco”, no sentido que Foucault confere ao termo, referindo-se a uma maximização dos efeitos de poder que parte da desqualificação fundamental de quem o exerce e dos seus enunciados.
Abstract: In the last decades, intervention on homelessness has increasingly assumed a medicalized form. This frames this phenomenon as an issue of neuropsychiatric individual abnormality. Based on the direct bservation of different kinds of interaction, this article discusses several examples of the medicalization of homeless individuals’ conducts. These make clear that the medicalization of homelessness is an intrinsically “grotesque” process, in the sense that Foucault gives to this term, by which he refers to a maximization of power effects that originates from the fundamental disqualification of those who exercise this power and of their statements.
Abstract: In the last decades, intervention on homelessness has increasingly assumed a medicalized form. This frames this phenomenon as an issue of neuropsychiatric individual abnormality. Based on the direct bservation of different kinds of interaction, this article discusses several examples of the medicalization of homeless individuals’ conducts. These make clear that the medicalization of homelessness is an intrinsically “grotesque” process, in the sense that Foucault gives to this term, by which he refers to a maximization of power effects that originates from the fundamental disqualification of those who exercise this power and of their statements.
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Grotesco Medicalização Poder Vida na rua Grotesque Homelessness Medicalization Power
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Aldeia, João (2019) “A medicalização grotesca da vida na rua”, Pensando – Revista de Filosofia, 10 (19), 90-106.
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Universidade Federal do Piauí