Abstract

PAIXAO, Larissa Baldoíno da  and  STENGEL, Márcia. Body (in)docile: bariatric surgery in its disciplinary and biopolitical effect . Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2020, vol.26, n.1, pp. 285-298. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n1p290-316.

Body appearance has a unique central role in the contemporary scenario. It is in this context that obesity was considered by the World Health Organization as a worldwide epidemic. Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery has become popular in recent decades as an option for the treatment this condition. This study aims to interweave obesity as a medical-clinical category and its relationship with forms of power. In its disciplinary effect, the technique intervenes over the individual body making it more "docile". In its biopolitical effect, it defines conditions upon life based on quantitative and universal terms. The obesity epidemic reflects the effects of a socio-economic model that has pervaded all spheres of human life and in which nothing can be refused.

Keywords : Obesity; Bariatric surgery; Disciplinary power; Biopolitics.

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