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22 | hiver 2022
Données médicales

XVIIe-XXIe siècles
Medical data (17th-21st centuries)
Datos médicos (siglos XVII-XXI)
Edited by Hervé Guillemain and Nahema Hanafi
Données médicales
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16 x 24 cm - 244 p.
ISBN 978-2-8107-1225-0
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Nowadays, the paradigm of large numbers (big data) is leading to a renewal of medical representations of the body (which is fragmented into so many comparable data that can be arranged at will) and of the therapeutic relationship. The advent of so-called personalised medicine, of artificial intelligence and its algorithmic devices is indeed accompanied by new imaginary and rhetorical approaches to care. The latter apply themselves to deploying a prophetic discourse on the scientific discoveries to come, on the capacity of science to repel diseases and even death, to reinforce and normalise bodies; the idea of an all-powerful medicine, in short. The 'truth' of bodies and the resolution of their disorders can only be found in what is thought of as a double objectification: the processing of quantitatively numerous data and the carrying out of the exercise by a machine that is not endowed with affects.

This issue revisits these medical rhetoric, to grasp these intellectual and technical promises in the long term, by articulating them to the therapeutic relationships they induce. By looking at the imaginary of care-givers on the one hand, and the place of suffering individuals on the other, we wish to investigate the gaps generated by the emergence of large amounts of medical data, as well as the strong persistence, right up to contemporary discourses, of the idea of a "progress" necessarily obtained by distancing human mediation to an increasing extent, in order to grasp the bodies and their pathologies.

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