Oncoguías-ontoguías: protocolos, panoramas y prehensión en el tratamiento del cáncer

Francisco Javier Tirado Serrano; Jorge Castillo Sepúlveda

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v11n1.830

Oncoguides-ontoguides: protocols, panoramas and prehension in cancer treatment

Authors

Francisco Javier Tirado Serrano Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jorge Castillo Sepúlveda Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Abstract

The protocols and guides have been studied extensively by the social sciences, especially in the biomedical field. They have been characterized as sets of rules that require contextual adaptation, collecting heterogeneity of actors, times and spaces. In this article we collect two questions that, however, have not been treated in literature. The first rests on the organization of content of guides-protocols and their effects. The second, on the relationship established between them and the health professionals. Based on the analysis of medical protocols-guides developed for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, we collect how these are organized in what Bruno Latour termed as panoramas. This implies a special relationship between professionals and guides-protocols, in which the seconds take the first, serving as a source of characterization of the medical phenomena. We describe this relationship as prehension, based on a neologism coined by Alfred Whitehead.

Keywords

Protocol and Guide, Panorama, Prehension, Cancer Treatment, Whitehead

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Author Biographies

Francisco Javier Tirado Serrano, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Doctor en Psicología Social. Profesor titular en el Departamento de Psicología Social de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Miembro del Grup d’Estudis Socials de la Ciència i la Tecnologia. Ha integrado equipos de investigación en proyectos relacionados con las transformaciones institucionales político-sanitarias asociadas a procesos de virtualización y tecnologización.

Jorge Castillo Sepúlveda, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Máster en Psicología Social. Estudiante del Programa de Doctorado en Psicología Social de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Miembro del Grup d’Estudis Socials de la Ciència i la Tecnologia. Desarrolla una investigación sobre el cáncer desde una perspectiva semiótico-material, siendo becario de la Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica.