Among the different technologies of neoliberal government emerging during the XX and XXI centuries, those that have attracted greater attention and reflection probably refer to those related to the processes of life, and the conception of it as a field for politics. This paper addresses the neoliberal governmental rationality involved in the development of the last major health reform in Chile: the Regime of Explicit Health Guarantees (GES), considering the implications of their epistemic aspects in understanding of corporeality. We consider as material for analysis several accounts of experts who have participated in the design of the regime, professionals involved in its implementation, legal and technical documents, and ethnographic observations. We analyse such information considering the notion of enactment proposed by Annemarie Mol. Results expose the processes of epistemic ordering, biopolitical acceleration, and biocitizenship prescription, linked to the enactment of the body as an assemblage of different spaces of government. We call such process as somatocracy, using the notion created by Michel Foucault. We conclude by integrating some components to think biocitizenship from emerging aspects in the work.
Los documentos han formado parte importante de los procesos de formalización y transformación organizacional. Esto ha sido particularmente evidente en el campo de la medicina. En este trabajo analizamos las acciones que promueven documentos como las guías de práctica clínica. Realizamos etnografías focalizadas, entrevistas y análisis documental en espacios de diseño, así como también en centros de atención. Para el análisis, adoptamos la perspectiva de la teoría del actor-red. Esta aproximación nos ha permitido señalar cómo las guías inscriben relaciones que son interpretadas localmente, entablan vínculos de co-afección en tanto modifican y son modificadas por los escenarios clínicos, y participan de arreglos pragmáticos para formular determinados efectos. Finalmente, y adoptando elementos de la filosofía procesual de Whitehead, consideramos que estas pueden ser concebidas como objetos proposicionales. Estos objetos recogen las potencialidades normativas de un escenario, ofrecen ocasiones para ser introducidos en relaciones y, asimismo, orientar su curso.
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