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Between life and death: pain. A Foucauldian approach

Abstract

From a Foucauldian perspective, this paper is addressed to trigger a reflection about the incorporation of pain into an ethic of resistance. In this paper, some ideas related to the birth of the clinic and other three conferences offered by Foucault in 1974, in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, are reviewed to analyze the approach of life, sickness, and death, and the bodies´ governance. The main argument sustains that Medicine´s discourse can do very little or nothing against pain, because it is an intermezzo space between life and death. Although pain threatens the deployment of positivity of life and health, it cannot conduct to their extermination. In such vane, it is possible to think about an Ethic able to resist against pharma industry or health business and to bet for an exceptional experience that helps us to recognize pain as a collective process.

Keywords

ethics, philosophy, Health, social system

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