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CENTRALITÀ DELLA PERSONA E TRANSFORMAZIONI DELLA SALUTE NEL TEMPO DELLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE

The article questions the increasing subjectiveness of the concept of health in contemporary globalised societies, wondering whether it can actually be considered the outcome of a new centrality of the person or it must be regarded as a particular aspect of the wider process of individualisation typ...

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Published in:Studi di sociologia 2007-04, Vol.45 (2), p.147-156
Main Authors: CESAREO, VINCENZO, GIARELLI, GUIDO
Format: Article
Language:Italian
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Summary:The article questions the increasing subjectiveness of the concept of health in contemporary globalised societies, wondering whether it can actually be considered the outcome of a new centrality of the person or it must be regarded as a particular aspect of the wider process of individualisation typical of the late modernity. Particularly, the changing concept of health is analysed by applying the theoretical tri-dimensional model of individualisation proposed by Beck on the background of the so-called «risk society» or «uncertainty society» in order to highlight the intrinsic ambivalence of the subjectiveness of health between an healthism-oriented hedonist narcissism typical of our performative and medicalised societies (Parsons) and an actual new autonomy of the person as part of a more general «accountable freedom».
ISSN:0039-291X