Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro Pedro

Medicina antienvelhecimento: notas sobre uma controvérsia sociotécnica

After some decades of struggle, geriatrics and gerontology have become the legitimate sciences of aging. Today, their status is being questioned. In its short history, anti-aging medicine has taken root as a medical practice that questions how to address biological aging. In so doing, all medicine is questioned. Here, we explore in particular how this controversy is structured around the founding principles of the sciences of aging. Is there any basis for these questionings? How have they been treated by those who have received them? Taking a socio-technical viewpoint, it is worth considering that for geriatricians and gerontologists, the need to criticize anti-aging medicine also raises some important reflections about how the sciences of aging address their subject.After some decades of struggle, geriatrics and gerontology have become the legitimate sciences of aging. Today, their status is being questioned. In its short history, anti-aging medicine has taken root as a medical practice that questions how to address biological aging. In so doing, all medicine is questioned. Here, we explore in particular how this controversy is structured around the founding principles of the sciences of aging. Is there any basis for these questionings? How have they been treated by those who have received them? Taking a socio-technical viewpoint, it is worth considering that for geriatricians and gerontologists, the need to criticize anti-aging medicine also raises some important reflections about how the sciences of aging address their subject.

Google e Linkedin: algumas questões articulando visibilidade, vigilância e subjetividade

O mundo do trabalho vem sofrendo transformacoes, muitas ocasionadas pelo atravessamento das novas tecnologias, que demandam tambem constantes reestruturacoes, exigindo uma reorganizacao de agenciamentos como flexibilidade, tensao e prazo. Esses profissionais emprestam as organizacoes as habilidades herdadas da forma tecnologica como gerenciam seu trabalho para gerir suas proprias vidas, baseados na competicao e excelencia. Tomaremos as cenas: “a contratacao via rede social” e “o direito de esquecimento”, considerando os atravessamentos tecnologicos, dispositivos de controle e vigilância. Palavras-chave: Trabalho. Dispositivos Tecnologicos. Vigilância. Visibilidade. Link: http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/3726

Facebook como dispositivo de vigilância e visibilidade: algumas controvérsias em questão

Nosso trabalho pretende refletir sobre as controversias que giram em torno do uso das redes sociais, especialmente o Facebook, como dispositivo de vigilância e visibilidade, provocando tensoes entre a preocupacao com a seguranca e a defesa da privacidade. Inspiradas na Teoria Ator-Rede (TAR), que aposta numa simetria entre atores humanos e nao humanos na construcao do social, tentamos seguir algumas pistas, por meio da leitura de noticias em jornal, a fim de retracar as articulacoes entre governos, Facebook e outros atores na configuracao de uma rede de vigilância e visibilidade. Tendo como referencia o trabalho de Foucault sobre a disciplina, pudemos apontar algumas diferencas referentes a novas formas de controle e governo, alem de refletir sobre novas formas de estabelecer a verdade do sujeito, ancoradas na exterioridade de seus atos.

O social chega ao morro: engendramentos em uma favela pacificada

O presente artigo e um recorte de uma pesquisa de mestrado intitulada “Unidades de Policia Pacificadora: Controversias que tecem a vida urbana”. Nele, partimos de uma analise Foucaultiana que nos permite considerar as Unidades de Policia Pacificadora como um dispositivo de seguranca contemporâneo, para refletir sobre os deslocamentos produzidos por essa politica em um dos territorios onde ela foi implantada – a comunidade Santa Marta, no Rio de Janeiro. Dentre tais deslocamentos, destaca-se a ressignificacao da favela, possivel a partir da insercao de diversos servicos e politicas sociais nos territorios pacificados, e a consequente producao de novos territorios urbanos, o que inclui a configuracao de novos circuitos de inclusao e de exclusao.

BIOETHICS NETWORKS AND REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES:THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES

Abstract The object of this paper is to discuss some of the theoretical and methodological controversies surrounding the emerging field of bioethics, especially focusing on reproduction biotechnologies, attempting to give some examples of its implications as a network of controversies. Initially, it presents the new reproduction biotechnologies in terms of the effect which they are producing on our understanding about human nature and life, as well as the context of the emergence of bioethics, traditionally conceived of as a critical and analytical example of the relationship between technology and humanity. As an alternative way of explaining these relationships, it outlines the aspect of bioethics as a network effect, in which the technology-society hybrid is shown both in the building of bioethical norms and in the instabilities which challenge these norms. As a way of understanding this heterogeneous and complex network, Controversy Analysis is proposed as a methodological tool. In order to illustrate the richness of such perspective, a brief empirical study is presented, in which an attempt is made to track controversies articulated around the relations between bioethics and reproduction biotechnologies, with a specific focus on stem cell research, as published by the on-line media from January of 2004 until July of 2006, raising questions about subjects such as: life, humanity, artifice and autonomy.