Da fisiologia à biopolítica: discursos sobre a deficiência física na legislação brasileira

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Antonio Lucieudo Lourenço da
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Miranda, Luciana Lobo, Germano, Idilva Maria Pires
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/21283
• topic: Pessoas com Deficiência; Lesão medular; Leis; Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade; Incapacidade e saúde; Personas con discapacidad; Lesión en la medula espinal; Leyes; Clasificación Internacional del Funcionamiento; Discapacidad y salud; Disabled persons; Spinal cord injury; Laws; International Classification of Functioning; Disability and health

When it comes to disability, it is common to evoke the question of normality and efficiency to perform a function. The aim of this paper is to reflect on physical disability as a discursive practice and the possible subjects that emerge from it, especially those who had spinal cord injury. We analyzed excerpts of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), the Benefício de Prestação Continuada –BCP (a program that guarantees a monthly minimum wage for the disabled and the elderly unable to provide for themselves or be provided by their families) and the article 93 of Brazilian Law 8213/91 ( which reserves vacancies in the labor market for the disabled). Our analysis is based on Michel Foucault, especially on the concepts of discourse as practices, biopower, biopolitics and governmentality. We find both an affirmation of a legal subject of rights but also a subject who will only be recognized according to the evidence of who is disabled. In both conditions, there is a prevalence of biomedical criteria. Although these laws intend to redefine the disabilities, the normative and regulator y practices analyzed legitimate hegemonic knowledge, determine powers and shape subjectivities, often producing an exclusionary inclusion.