期刊名称：Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad (RELACES)
电子版ISSN：1852-8759
出版年度：2021
期号：35
页码：25-36
出版社：CEA Unidad Ejecutora CONICET-UNC (20730)
摘要：The purpose of this article is to understand how the medicalization of death, that is, the transformation of death into an institutionalized event according to the model of medicine of death and disease, interferes in social organization of death in Brazil today. In this article, we elicit two examples of technical knowledge and practices related to this medicalization. The first was the discourse organized by the Brazilian State and its agents on the fulfillment of the Death Certificate and how it implicitly separates illness, injury and death from its social background. The second was the speeches of the workers at the Coroner's Office and in the embalming laboratories and how they approximate (or depart) from the official language. Our goal is to show how death as a research object is not a separate “thing”, independent of the social elements that give it visibility.
