Abstract

ORTEGA-BOLANOS, Jesús A.  and  BULA-ESCOBAR, Jorge I.. The body as the scenario for social vulnerability regarding health. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2012, vol.14, n.6, pp.1033-1042. ISSN 0124-0064.

Theoretical reflection concerning the human body within a scenario of social healthcare practices recognizes its nature through ontological dimensions for defining our finiteness and facticity in a world where nobody experiences their own birth or death but rather experiences such events through others. Considering health as an overall process called existence, being conscious of one's own body in terms of dynamic states of health and disease, is related to scenarios where the body has played a central role in the existential experience of the culture which it has built and in which it has been living, as well as in the relationship of knowledge with how power is exercised. Relationships between knowledge, power, resistance and the action of bodies are scenarios concerning social vulnerability regarding health. We wish to raise awareness concerning the relationship between bodies and social vulnerability regarding health as an emergent scenario for promoting discussion dealing with claiming the right to health and the chances of it being positively affected by public health policy from a trans-sector response and a community-based response proposed by Colombian society and culture.

Keywords : Human body; health vulnerability; health policy; healthcare system; medical anthropology.

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