Post-Patienthood. Health Risks and the Reflexivity of Self-Embodiment

• Authors: Tomasz Burzyński

Title variants

PL

Postpacjent. Ryzyko zdrowotne i refleksyjne ucieleśnienie własnej osoby

Abstracts

PL

Skupiając się na rozważaniu społecznych i technologicznych przemian w obrębie medycyny artykuł ten jest próbą nakreślenia nowego modelu tożsamościowego, w którym cielesność jednostki jest włączona w obręb zaawansowanych biotechnologii, a zwłaszcza genetyki i genomiki. Proponowane pojęcie „post-pacjenta” określa wymiar tożsamości indywidualnej rozumianej jako konstrukt kulturowy, który odnosi obecny stan zdrowia jednostki do całego spektrum możliwych scenariuszy sformułowanych na podstawie oceny stopnia genetycznej podatności pacjenta na określone jednostki chorobowe. W tym kontekście geny są postrzegane w kategoriach zindywidualizowanych czynników ryzyka stosowanych do oceny stopnia podatności jednostki na choroby cywilizacyjne. Post-pacjent nie jest zatem ani zdrowy ani chory, a jego obecny stan nie ma większego wpływu dla ukształtowanie się subiektywnego poczucia cielesności.

EN

By discussing social and technological developments in the system of biomedicine, the article aims to postulate an identity pattern in which human embodiment is inscribed in the context of advanced biotechnologies, especially genetics and genomics. The concept of post-patienthood refers to individual identity as a construct that relates the person’s present medical condition to a range of possible future scenarios, each formulated on the basis of genetic susceptibility to a particular disease. The post-patient, therefore, is neither healthy nor ill, and the present medical condition could be irrelevant to their sense of embodiment.

Keywords

PL

biomedykalizacja; ucieleśnienie; pacjent; ryzyko; genetyka

EN

biomedicalization; embodiment; patient; risk; genetics

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach / Śląsk Sp. z o.o. Wydawnictwo Naukowe
• Journal: ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 46
• Pages: 31-42

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Tomasz Burzyński

• Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

• https://orcid.org/0000000337800020

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/errgo.13405

Biblioteka Nauki

26054690