Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
Topicality of the issue is determined with medicalization being an important part of social, political technologies. This article is aimed to demonstrate a political background of medicalization, and respectively a potency of the philosophical-phenomenological approach as a strategy of resistance. The methods of logical analysis, etymological analysis, as well as hermeneutics are applied. This study provides with a new understanding of the nature of medicalization, thus allows to ground a conclusion that the opposition “health – disease” is distorted within the framework of the medical-political discourse, as well as to explain why an incorrect definition of health is still in use in the WHO documents.
health, disease, natural death, medicalization, power, phenomenology.
После трудов Т. Саса, Э. Гоффмана, М. Фуко, Ф. Базальи, И. Иллича рассматривать историю медицины в контексте истории политических технологий стало делом привычным. Здоровье — ценность не только личная, но и общественная — предполагает стандарт, учет, контроль, наказание.
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