The skin as a “social organ”. A humanistic medical approach

Abstract

This process of inquiry begins with the researcher's search and interest in finding medical texts that unify the exact scientific part with the social scientific part that should compose all work whose object of study is human, given how difficult and almost null it became. To find a research trend that unites these two approaches, we started a first document that aims to give the human being affected by their health, in this case the skin, that is, dermatological, a social face that goes beyond the clinic, a somewhat holistic view of the patient that includes the person and their relationships and actions with and in their environment. In an attempt to give form and unity to two elements that until today have been seen by many researchers as separate, we have used here a focus on the skin, as a political or social subject, because the skin is the organ that serves as a letter of presentation of the human body to the exterior, hence we use the name of “political/social organ”, therefore anchored in all the duties and restrictions that are imposed on the body itself.
From our perspective, we propose different ways in which the human body (from the skin organ) enters a power mechanism that explores it, breaks it up and recomposes it, transforming it into a “social skin”.