“Your body does not belong to you”: science fiction, body and medicine
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i29.112586Keywords:
medicine, science fiction, biopolitics, bodyAbstract
Medicine’s knowledge-power, which has as an immanent possibility to increase the bodies’ power of action, sometimes ends up promoting the territorialization of bodies to limited action spaces. This paper offers the reading of two literary works which instigate this discussion in two different moments: The island of dr. Moreau (1886), published when medicine did not possess the institutional power it has nowadays, and Never let me go (2005), that brings to light the hierarchization of lives by contemporary medical science. Inspired by this discussion, I offer an analysis of the territorialization processes of other bodies by the medical discourse in the narratives.
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