La molecularización del estrés crónico. El ciudadano VIH como proceso de subjetivación contemporáneo.

Abstract

Over past four decades there has been a mutation of medicine as scientific knowledge that addresses to an intense and novel interest for the biological basis of vital phenomena, based on new procedures in laboratory and clinic practices and the progressive realignment between biology and medicine, namely Biomedicine. _x000D_ From a qualitative methodological approach to the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) epidemic and taking STS (science and technology studies) and CMH (Critical Medical Humanities) elements, this Thesis explores HIV materiality and analyses the formation of a (bio)citizenship distinctive of contemporary Western society: the HIV chronic citizen, as a case of life´s government biomedicalization._x000D_ Considering a new ontology of health and vital organisms, a reflection is made about the new findings on the HIV field, which point out a direct link between health, psychological stress and Interleukins-6, a sort of immune system cells that promote the chronic inflammation which defines currently HIV. _x000D_ It is from these new approaches between health and stress, between the social and the molecular, that the processes of subjectivation that transcend the biological understanding of existence will be here considered.

Date of Award	21 Dec 2018
Original language	Spanish
Supervisor	María Carmen Peñaranda Colera (Director) & Francisco Javier Tirado Serrano (Tutor)