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Pecheny, Mario
Ariza, Lucía
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Temporal Coverage
2012-2018
Idioma
spa
Extent
332 p.
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7593303
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (autonomus city)
2012-2018
Abstract
Looking into the practices of three medical specialties, the purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the ways in which medicine produces and regulates sexed and gendered bodies, bodies of "man" and "woman", as well as sexual and/or reproductive functions, sexuality, sexual difference, and pathologies or dysfunctions linked to the sexual. In order to fulfill this aim, the thesis examines the relationships between the medical-clinical practices of gynecology, urology and medical sexology with body ontologies. Medical practices are understood as that which is performed by doctors in their offices and medical services: the ways in which they carry out “semiological examinations”, “diagnostic procedures” and indication of treatments. Body ontologies refer to what bodies are, the ways in which they are constituted and defined semiotically and materially.
The thesis analyzes a heterogeneous set of materials: interviews with physicians and medical students, training programs, clinical practices guides, care protocols, academic articles, diagnostic and semiological instruments. The analytical procedure consists in the situated elaboration of categories that allow addressing the articulations between medical practices and body ontologies. Some of them are: "gynecological condensations," "urological compositions," "practical imbalances," "diagnostic artifacts," "material semiotic frameworks," "body shaping."
The field of gynecology is defined by the "comprehensive care of women." This specialty is analyzed making use of the idea of “gynecological condensations”, that is, the articulations between micro and macropolitics. The frameworks formed by the interactions among many issues establish five condensations to be examined: 1- state regulations, “integral care of women” and the field of sexual and reproductive health; 2- bodily processes and the control of sexuality and reproductive capacities of cisgender women; 3- sex and gender regulations, the notions of "prevention", "responsibility" and "care" and the technical aspects of "gynecological controls"; 4- the shaping of sexuality according to the notions of "normality", "excess", "risk"; 5- cisexism and transphobia in health care of trans men.
The field of urology is defined by the addressing of "the pathologies that concern the urinary tree of both sexes and the male reproductive system", as well as by the sound use of technical-surgical skills. This specialty directs its practices towards the resolution of events that take place in the lives of its patients, mostly cisgender men. The thesis examines three types of “urological compositions”, that is, singular articulations between the technical-surgical competencies of urology and institutional conditions, laboratory studies, objects and instruments (such as prostheses and “tutors”), and the demands of the patients. The three compositions analyzed arise from the demands of: 1- cisgender men affected by prostate discomfort; 2- cisgender men requesting the placement of penile or testicular prostheses; 3- transgender women who request the performance of a type of surgery called vaginoplasty. From these three compositions, the ways in which the urological field is productively related to the health/disease and functional/dysfunctional pairs are analyzed.
The field of medical sexology is defined by the attention and solution of sexual dysfunctions. The thesis examines the ways in which this field is constituted in relation to the operation of two types of "diagnostic artifacts": "sexual response" and "sexual function". The ways in which this specialty carries out its clinical tasks are also analyzed based on the notion of “practical imbalances”. This category allows to investigate the discontinuities between: 1- the multicausal nature of sexual dysfunctions and the implementation of therapeutic processes aimed at resolving the symptom; 2 - the gap in terms of efficacy between the therapeutic alternatives administered by medical sexology: psychotherapies and pharmacological therapies. Assumptions related to sexual performance and their relationship to heterosexuality are also examined.
The thesis explores the ways in which these three specialties define and treat "sex", "sexual difference" and "sexuality", the production of sex as "semiological data" and as "investigative premise" in clinical research, as well as the constitution of sexual difference in the anatomical, physiological and histological scales. At the same time, the way in which the different scales of sexual difference are articulated with the clinical definitions and practices of gynecology, urology and clinical sexology is addressed. Finally, I analyze how the frameworks conformed by epistemological definitions, medical practices, objects and instruments, and assumptions and ontological effects make medicine a hospitable task or not.
The general conclusions of the thesis refer to the powers of situated investigations and to the analytical and ontological possibilities of porous ways for approaching the objects with which we deal. To the consubstantial nature of medical practices, the epistemological definitions of each discipline and body ontologies. The conclusions also refer to the nature of medical practices which, together with bodies, are plural and contingent. Corporalities are not something given, but multiplicities that are made in concrete practices that, after all, are in the hands of people who can make them, and make themselves, in other ways. This thesis analyzes how medical practices are open and closed to the affectation by the processes with which they deal, which in turn are entangled with regulations and modifications of sex and gender norms.
The thesis analyzes a heterogeneous set of materials: interviews with physicians and medical students, training programs, clinical practices guides, care protocols, academic articles, diagnostic and semiological instruments. The analytical procedure consists in the situated elaboration of categories that allow addressing the articulations between medical practices and body ontologies. Some of them are: "gynecological condensations," "urological compositions," "practical imbalances," "diagnostic artifacts," "material semiotic frameworks," "body shaping."
The field of gynecology is defined by the "comprehensive care of women." This specialty is analyzed making use of the idea of “gynecological condensations”, that is, the articulations between micro and macropolitics. The frameworks formed by the interactions among many issues establish five condensations to be examined: 1- state regulations, “integral care of women” and the field of sexual and reproductive health; 2- bodily processes and the control of sexuality and reproductive capacities of cisgender women; 3- sex and gender regulations, the notions of "prevention", "responsibility" and "care" and the technical aspects of "gynecological controls"; 4- the shaping of sexuality according to the notions of "normality", "excess", "risk"; 5- cisexism and transphobia in health care of trans men.
The field of urology is defined by the addressing of "the pathologies that concern the urinary tree of both sexes and the male reproductive system", as well as by the sound use of technical-surgical skills. This specialty directs its practices towards the resolution of events that take place in the lives of its patients, mostly cisgender men. The thesis examines three types of “urological compositions”, that is, singular articulations between the technical-surgical competencies of urology and institutional conditions, laboratory studies, objects and instruments (such as prostheses and “tutors”), and the demands of the patients. The three compositions analyzed arise from the demands of: 1- cisgender men affected by prostate discomfort; 2- cisgender men requesting the placement of penile or testicular prostheses; 3- transgender women who request the performance of a type of surgery called vaginoplasty. From these three compositions, the ways in which the urological field is productively related to the health/disease and functional/dysfunctional pairs are analyzed.
The field of medical sexology is defined by the attention and solution of sexual dysfunctions. The thesis examines the ways in which this field is constituted in relation to the operation of two types of "diagnostic artifacts": "sexual response" and "sexual function". The ways in which this specialty carries out its clinical tasks are also analyzed based on the notion of “practical imbalances”. This category allows to investigate the discontinuities between: 1- the multicausal nature of sexual dysfunctions and the implementation of therapeutic processes aimed at resolving the symptom; 2 - the gap in terms of efficacy between the therapeutic alternatives administered by medical sexology: psychotherapies and pharmacological therapies. Assumptions related to sexual performance and their relationship to heterosexuality are also examined.
The thesis explores the ways in which these three specialties define and treat "sex", "sexual difference" and "sexuality", the production of sex as "semiological data" and as "investigative premise" in clinical research, as well as the constitution of sexual difference in the anatomical, physiological and histological scales. At the same time, the way in which the different scales of sexual difference are articulated with the clinical definitions and practices of gynecology, urology and clinical sexology is addressed. Finally, I analyze how the frameworks conformed by epistemological definitions, medical practices, objects and instruments, and assumptions and ontological effects make medicine a hospitable task or not.
The general conclusions of the thesis refer to the powers of situated investigations and to the analytical and ontological possibilities of porous ways for approaching the objects with which we deal. To the consubstantial nature of medical practices, the epistemological definitions of each discipline and body ontologies. The conclusions also refer to the nature of medical practices which, together with bodies, are plural and contingent. Corporalities are not something given, but multiplicities that are made in concrete practices that, after all, are in the hands of people who can make them, and make themselves, in other ways. This thesis analyzes how medical practices are open and closed to the affectation by the processes with which they deal, which in turn are entangled with regulations and modifications of sex and gender norms.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales