Tecnificação de vida: uma discussão sobre o fenômeno da medicalização na sociedade contemporânea

Abstract

The medicalization of society is a phenomenon that has been flagged by several authors since the nineteenth century, when scientific knowledge was spread by several social areas. But it was from the 1940s, with the introduction of psychotropic drugs, that this phenomenon has become ever more intrusive in daily life. The discussion that is intended here is about the process of medicalization of existence that is becoming in our contemporary times, taking as a analyzing basis a phenomenology of the speeches this medication in the form of technification of daily life. In thinking about the relationship between medicine and technology we problematize the trapping almost total of life in the meshes of a logic technique that you want to understand the human existence by deterministic principles. We discuss how this discourse has achieved such evidence and impact on contemporary society and established patterns of behavior in relation to the indiscriminate use of psychotropic drugs. Understand the relationship between drugs and technology seem possible and, above all, necessary with a view that all human activity seems to be tweaked by a single tuning fork totalitarian: a technological reason. We realized that the modern man seems to establish with the technique an instrumental relationship and utilitarian in search not only of a live satisfactory, but, essentially, a solution for almost all of its problems. Therefore, there is the implication of a social practice, that by means of a whole technological apparatus, have transformed the daily life in a medical problem-pharmacological and is this practice that we understand. We will emphasize in our research the phenomenological research because we believe that the same proposes to identify significant structures, from the routine life. This routine life was investigated by speech expressed in interviews with users o f the services of Applied Psychology in the city of Rio de Janeiro through the institutions of higher education. We seek to elucidate how this way of thinking about technical crosses the live contemporary, transforming situations, before considered natural to be faced during the life, in episodes that deserve to be treated and solved by a set of knowledge are eager to answer the dilemmas of human existence