The production of the elderly subject as businessman of himself: health notebooks manufacturing ways of living

Authors

  • Patricia Haertel Giusti Universidade Católica de Pelotas (RS) - UCPel.
  • Paula Corrêa Henning Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2015v18i2p31-57

Keywords:

Oldness, Media, Foucault's studies.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the relationship between the knowledge produced for old people, the power games that come into operation to ensure a better aging process and the subjectivity of these individuals. The discursive corpus is composed by enunciations about aging in media press, and it was analyzed from Foucault's referential. One realizes the crossing of disciplinary, security and control devices in the manufacture of an elderly subject, businessman of himself.

 

Author Biographies

Patricia Haertel Giusti, Universidade Católica de Pelotas (RS) - UCPel.

Fisioterapeuta. Mestre em Saúde e Comportamento. Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências: Química da Vida e da Saúde da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande. Professora da Universidade Católica de Pelotas (RS) - UCPel.

 

Paula Corrêa Henning, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG.

Pedagoga. Mestre e Doutora em Educação. Professora Adjunta do Instituto de Educação e dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental e Educação em Ciências da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG.

 

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Published

2015-06-30

How to Cite

Giusti, P. H., & Henning, P. C. (2015). The production of the elderly subject as businessman of himself: health notebooks manufacturing ways of living. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 18(2), 31–57. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2015v18i2p31-57

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Papers

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