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Sociológica (México)
versión On-line ISSN 2007-8358versión impresa ISSN 0187-0173
Resumen
RODRIGUEZ ZOYA, Paula Gabriela. Diet and Medicalization: An Analysis of a Mechanism for Personal Care and Improving Health. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2015, vol.30, n.86, pp.201-234. ISSN 2007-8358.
This article analyzes the spread of medicalization to the sphere of food and diet. The question researched is in the area of production and circulation of meanings about care and improving health implied in the medicalization of food in contemporary Argentina. The author conceptualizes a mechanism of medicalization in the diet and examines its social manifestation through the analysis of publicity, the media, and norms. Her main findings consist of the identification of operations of fragmenting and making foods more technical, mechanisms for subjectivizing food, and technologies of dietary governance for improving health.
Palabras llave : diet; medicalization; device or mechanism; discourses; improving health; Argentina.