Capitalização da vida nos bancos de células-tronco do cordão umbilical : interrogantes à psicologia na produção de subjetividade

Abstract

The uses of biotechnologies directed to manipulation of the umbilical cord stem cells seem to be as new promises for the cure of certain existing conditions and others have even been identified. Such biotechnologies ultimately enable subjectivities modes configured as precaucionárias, frightened and business, which claim for themselves the care of your health and the optimization of vitality. In contemporary biopolitics, the umbilical cord blood stem cells are part of a facet of the capitalization of life, which consists of economic and affective valuation of that part of the body. Supported in focaultianos theoretical and methodological contributions and the Actor-Network Theory (or studies of Science, Technology and Society), this paper aims to discuss the biopolitics strategies, in contemporary times, which drive a market capitalization of life in public and private banks stem cells from umbilical cord, with focus on Brazil. In these banks, body parts become a source of capital, which bind to a heterogeneous network of biotechnical devices that mobilize biossocialidades articulated affectivity policies. To deposit the blood in private and public banks, the parentes are being precautious against possible futurological diseases, and participate in the biotechnological advances in biomedicine and entangle an information exchange space, socialities and affectivity mediated primarily by marketing strategies, which, more than certainties as to the uses of umbilical cells, promote segregation and social inequalities in Brazil.