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The National Policy for Integral Attention to Men’s Health and its biopolitics gear: the use of the concept of gender as a light regime

Abstract

The article examines the National Policy of Comprehensive Men and Women’s Healthcare of the Brazilian government. Documents analyzed were: “Principles and guidelines of the National Policy of Comprehensive Men’s Healthcare”, “Principles and guidelines of the National Policy of Comprehensive Women’s Healthcare”, and interviews to federal managers of the Technical Field of Men’s Healthcare. Discourse analysis from Michel Foucault allowed to deal with the corpus in their production conditions through an analytical -descriptive gesture handling of scattered statements. The central argument is that the health policy analyzed has a “gender” as a discursive network that produces the subject references its intelligibility. Stand - in analyzes the emergence of the female subject of care, represented by the woman-mother hygienic and woman -subject, and the man as the subject of rights to health under the sign of newness of his birth. The dialogue with Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida is one of the enablers axes theoretical analysis of the issues that build the product , in addition to the title itself also seeks to highlight , namely the biopolitics gears that move the policy in question .

National Policy of Integral Human Health; gender; biopolitics; medicalization of male sexuality attention

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