Abstract

LAZA VASQUEZ, Celmira  and  CALDERON FARFAN, Juan Camilo. Discursive practices and resistence as new female subjectivities in the inherited risk of breast cáncer. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2017, vol.43, n.1, pp. 82-93. ISSN 0864-3466.

The molecularization of Biopolitics substantiates how in contemporary societies, based on the achievements of biotechnological industry and the great possibilities of results' applications, the body is built by making visible the invisible instead of an assembly of its parts: the genes. This brings about that the interest is not centered in disease but in "risk", its control and modification. An example of the above-mentioned is seen in the development of tools to identify precise molecular biomarkers BRCA 1/2 capable of identifying and quantifying the "inherited risk" of breast cancer in women with family history of this disease. Therefore, an analysis of the emergence of the new female subjectivities, resulting from such life molecularization, was suggested: the discursive practices of "survival optimization" and the practices of resistance, the "surveillance" and the "biological citizenships" built from the bottom.

Keywords : Biopolitics; breast cancer; risk; subjectivities.

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