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''Scotomes'' or ''blind spots'' in the medical field that limit its role in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH): ideas about how to eliminate them / Los "escotomas" del campo médico que limitan su papel en la salud sexual y reproductiva (SSR) de los adolescentes: ideas para superarlos
Restrepo Espinosa, Olga Lucia.
  • Restrepo Espinosa, Olga Lucia; University of Antioquia. Medellín. CO
Iatreia ; 27(2): 241-251, Apr.-June 2014. ilus, tab
Article in English, Spanish | LILACS, COLNAL | ID: lil-712475
ABSTRACT
This article reviews the medical field's role in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) from the historical perspectives of two influential medical specialties: adolescent and young adult medicine and pediatric and adolescent gynecology. The article identifies aspects that act as blind spots, limiting the medical field's capacity to respond to the challenges of ASRH. The article reviews the theoretical contributions of the critical social sciences, highlighting some of Latin America's collective health movements and feminist theories, as well as the hegemonic medical institutional discourses and practices that perpetuate health inequities in relation to patients' sexualities, subjectivities and identities. Finally, this paper presents a new concept: that of ''sexual citizenship,'' a useful concept that integrates these theoretical and methodological contributions into a relational analysis that includes sexualities, subjectivities and identities. The incorporation of these theoretical developments into medical training programs would generate a radical change in the role of the medical field that has been challenged by the new conceptual and ethical framework of the UN system, as confirmed at the conferences in Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995). These conferences urged states to offer policies that guarantee sexual and reproductive rights (SRR).
RESUMEN
Este artículo revisa el papel del campo médico en la salud sexual y reproductiva (SSR) de los adolescentes; a partir de una perspectiva histórica de la configuración de dos especializaciones médicas para intervenirla ­la Medicina de Adolescentes y la Ginecología Infanto-Juvenilidentifica aspectos que actúan como "escotomas" limitantes de su capacidad resolutiva en la problemática de la SSR. Rescata aportes teóricos de corrientes crítico-sociales, resaltando algunos del movimiento latinoamericano de salud colectiva y de las teorías feministas, fundamentales para superarlos tales como la determinación social y del género en la salud y enfoques y prácticas médicas institucionalizados en Latinoamérica, que yacen detrás de políticas que perpetúan las inequidades en salud en este campo de la SSR. Por último, revela un novedoso concepto: el de "ciudadanía sexual" útil para integrar dichos aportes teóricos y metodológicos en un análisis relacional con sexualidades, subjetividades e identidades. La incorporación de estos desarrollos teóricos en programas de formación médica daría un profundo giro al papel del campo médico interpelado por el nuevo marco conceptual y ético del sistema de Naciones Unidas, acordado en las conferencias de El Cairo (1994) y Beijing (1995), instando a los estados a ofrecer políticas con garantías de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos (DSR).
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Scotoma / Adolescent Medicine / Reproductive Health Type of study: Prognostic study Limits: Adolescent Language: English / Spanish Journal: Iatreia Journal subject: Medicine Year: 2014 Type: Article Affiliation country: Colombia Institution/Affiliation country: University of Antioquia/CO

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Scotoma / Adolescent Medicine / Reproductive Health Type of study: Prognostic study Limits: Adolescent Language: English / Spanish Journal: Iatreia Journal subject: Medicine Year: 2014 Type: Article Affiliation country: Colombia Institution/Affiliation country: University of Antioquia/CO