Levín Santiago A
Capítulo de Historia y Epistemología de la Psiquiatría, APSA. Docente del Departamento de Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, UBA.
Vertex. 2013 Mar-Apr;24(108):95-8.
The main focus of this paper is to analyze the role of the word pronounced by members of the health staff as it is constitutive of identity in the patient recepting the word. How is identity constructed? How does the word spoken by a significant Other impinge on this process? In particular, what about the influence of words denoting medical diagnoses? Regarding such queries we also look, on a preliminary basis, at each of the two main currents in Western medicine (biomedicine and medical anthropology), to find out if and how it addresses the relation between the word as an element of identity and the same word as a therapeutic tool.
本文的主要焦点在于分析医护人员说出的话语所起的作用，因为这些话语在接受话语的患者身上构成了身份认同。身份认同是如何构建的？重要他人说出的话语如何影响这一过程？特别是，表示医学诊断的词语有何影响？关于此类问题，我们还初步审视了西医的两大主要流派（生物医学和医学人类学），以查明它们是否以及如何论述作为身份认同元素的话语与作为治疗工具的同一话语之间的关系。
