La presión arterial como entidad múltiple: un ensamblaje de prácticas y materialidades.

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Title:	La presión arterial como entidad múltiple: un ensamblaje de prácticas y materialidades.
Alternate Title:	Arterial blood pressure as a multiple entity: an assemblage of practices and materialities.
Authors:	Sotelo-Daza, Jorge¹ jorgesot@unicauca.edu.co
Source:	Cuadernos Médico Sociales. 2021 Supplement, Vol. 61, p79-91. 13p.
Abstract (English):	Objective: This article focuses on revealing where and how blood pressure is constructed, a biomedical entity that functions as a non-human actant and determines the dynamics of people’s daily lives. Methods: Qualitative, ethnographic study. Reports obtained through conversation with seven health caregivers and 28 people with high arterial blood from the city of Popayán, Colombia, were taken through the identification and monitoring of practices and the conceptual recovery of knowledge. In-depth interviews, a field diary and participant observation entangled in a praxiography were used. The concept of multiplicity was assumed considering that reality is multiplied according to the different ways in which it is put into action in different scenarios where it is built in and by practices. Results: Arterial blood emerged as a multiple entity in five scenarios of daily life: individual, family, community, health carers and the health system. It is built as a result of practices by the effect of the interaction between human and non-human entities, discourses, people, objects and materialities that are assembled and make their existence possible. Conclusions: Arterial blood is constructed (enactment) from multiple practices gathering entities of a heterogeneous nature in different scenarios of everyday life. It refers to a non-human entity that does not have a unique existence, on the contrary, it is multiple, ceasing to be a fixed and stable biomedical concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Abstract (Spanish):	Objetivo: El presente artículo se centra en develar dónde y cómo se construye la presión arterial, una entidad de la biomedicina que funge como un actante no humano y determina dinámicas de la vida cotidiana de las personas. Métodos: Estudio cualitativo, etnográfico. Se tomaron relatos logrados a través de la conversación con siete cuidadores de salud y 28 personas con presión arterial alta de la ciudad de Popayán Colombia a través de la identificación y seguimiento de prácticas y la recuperación conceptual de saberes. Se utilizaron entrevistas a profundidad, un diario de campo y observación participante enmarañados en una praxiografía. Se asumió el concepto de multiplicidad considerando que la realidad se multiplica de acuerdo con las diferentes formas en que se pone en acción en diferentes escenarios donde es construida en y por las prácticas. Resultados: La presión arterial emergió como una entidad múltiple en cinco escenarios de la cotidianidad: individual, familiar, comunitario, cuidadores de salud y el sistema de salud. Es construida como resultado de prácticas por el efecto de la interacción entre entidades humanas y no humanas, discursos, personas, objetos y materialidades que se ensamblan y hacen posible su existencia. Conclusiones: La presión arterial se construye (pone en acción) a partir de múltiples prácticas reuniendo entidades de naturaleza heterogénea en diferentes escenarios de la cotidianidad. Hace referencia a una entidad no humana que no tiene una existencia única, por el contrario, es múltiple, dejando de ser un concepto biomédico fijo y estable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	Objective: This article focuses on revealing where and how blood pressure is constructed, a biomedical entity that functions as a non-human actant and determines the dynamics of people’s daily lives. Methods: Qualitative, ethnographic study. Reports obtained through conversation with seven health caregivers and 28 people with high arterial blood from the city of Popayán, Colombia, were taken through the identification and monitoring of practices and the conceptual recovery of knowledge. In-depth interviews, a field diary and participant observation entangled in a praxiography were used. The concept of multiplicity was assumed considering that reality is multiplied according to the different ways in which it is put into action in different scenarios where it is built in and by practices. Results: Arterial blood emerged as a multiple entity in five scenarios of daily life: individual, family, community, health carers and the health system. It is built as a result of practices by the effect of the interaction between human and non-human entities, discourses, people, objects and materialities that are assembled and make their existence possible. Conclusions: Arterial blood is constructed (enactment) from multiple practices gathering entities of a heterogeneous nature in different scenarios of everyday life. It refers to a non-human entity that does not have a unique existence, on the contrary, it is multiple, ceasing to be a fixed and stable biomedical concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	07161336