Medicina, cáncer y significación del cuerpo

El cáncer y la significación del cuerpo en la medicina durante el periodo colonial en México

Abstract

Through the consideration of the concept of analyzer applied to social applications and significations, it sets the problematic of cancer like a series of social practices that goes beyond of the common content of the word disease. The cancer as a disease is a group of practices which include the daily life of the non-cancerous, the medical institution, the pharmaceutical industry, etc. So, talk about cancer, is talk about a social imaginary signification, from which, through the medicine and assistance institution (including the transversality of pharmaceutical institution), the body is built, in its healthy ways, but also the body abject of the disease. In the present essay, we tried to do a little historic synthesis which let us visualize some edges of the social process that builds the social imaginary signification of the effective body in our society.