Hs8018 Our Bodies, Our Selves
HS8018 Our Bodies, Our Selves
To build a disciplined body, one must understand the 4 dimensions: other-relatedness, self-relatedness, desire and control. A disciplined body is well-ordered, and displays predictable skills, and there is a high degree of control. On the desire dimensions, the disciplined either lacks desire, or produces it. As far as other relatedness is concerned, the disciplined body can started through its relations with others or focused inwards upon itself.
Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions which happen naturally, after which become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization can be determined by new evidence or hypotheses about conditions by the development of new medications or treatments.
Medicalization is studied from a sociologic perspective for its implications for ordinary people whose self-identity and life decisions may depend on the prevailing concepts of health and illness.
After a chance encounter at a theatre, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
Marco is told by the doctors that people in coma never wake up but that there are miracle-stories of people who have come back but that he should not keep his hopes high. Marco stays in Benigno’s apartment and sees that Alicia has awakened during or sometime after giving birth, but the baby was stillborn. Following Benigno's lawyer's urging, he does not tell Benigno about her unexpected recovery. Desperate, Benigno ingests a large quantity of pills to try to "escape" and reunite with Alicia. He
To build a disciplined body, one must understand the 4 dimensions: other-relatedness, self-relatedness, desire and control. A disciplined body is well-ordered, and displays predictable skills, and there is a high degree of control. On the desire dimensions, the disciplined either lacks desire, or produces it. As far as other relatedness is concerned, the disciplined body can started through its relations with others or focused inwards upon itself.
Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions which happen naturally, after which become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization can be determined by new evidence or hypotheses about conditions by the development of new medications or treatments.
Medicalization is studied from a sociologic perspective for its implications for ordinary people whose self-identity and life decisions may depend on the prevailing concepts of health and illness.
After a chance encounter at a theatre, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
Marco is told by the doctors that people in coma never wake up but that there are miracle-stories of people who have come back but that he should not keep his hopes high. Marco stays in Benigno’s apartment and sees that Alicia has awakened during or sometime after giving birth, but the baby was stillborn. Following Benigno's lawyer's urging, he does not tell Benigno about her unexpected recovery. Desperate, Benigno ingests a large quantity of pills to try to "escape" and reunite with Alicia. He