L'avènement médical du sujet. Les avatars de l'autonomie en santé

摘要

Medical accession of the subject The classical questions of the relationship between body and mind and of the effects of the environment on health are raised in a particular way today, in view of their connection to the question of the relationship between the individual and society. We undertake to demonstrate this through the way in which the experience of illness has become a privileged moment in the formation of the individual as subject. Indeed, this experience refers to the assertion of individual autonomy. Thus today, against medicine and against society, the subject will want to constitute himself, but will only be able to do so through recourse to professional knowledge and pratices, and by receiving support from social norms and institutions, lt is through the mediation of areas of knowledge, of catagories and of organisations that the formation of the subject occurs, and through the various institutional and conceptual mediations there is a transverse axis, namely the concept of autonomy, which plays a determinant expressive and normative role.