“Carpentry work is always bad for health”: Background information and anthropological contributions to the study of the health-disease processes of construction workers
This article presents an approach to the study of the health-disease processes of construction workers in the city of Rosario. Characterized as a very heterogeneous, precarious and dangerous industry, the specialized bibliography confers a centrality to risks and accidents, as well as to safety and...
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I15-R207-article-1492022-11-22T23:27:57Z “Carpentry work is always bad for health”: Background information and anthropological contributions to the study of the health-disease processes of construction workers “El trabajo de la carpintería siempre es malo para la salud”: Antecedentes y aportes antropológicos al estudio de los procesos de salud-enfermedad de los trabajadores de la construcción Philipp, Gretel Procesos de salud-enfermedad trabajadores Antropología industria de la construcción Health-disease processes workers Anthropology construction industry This article presents an approach to the study of the health-disease processes of construction workers in the city of Rosario. Characterized as a very heterogeneous, precarious and dangerous industry, the specialized bibliography confers a centrality to risks and accidents, as well as to safety and prevention. The predominance of Engineering and Medicine in the state of play reveals a certain medical-technical configuration of the problem that focuses on the individual and the biological, reproducing and transferring the conception of the dominant medical model to the workplace. This perspective has been questioned in Latin America since the 70s, mainly by Social Medicine, which also nurtured a number of anthropological approaches and shaped a theoretical arsenal that still today remains fundamental for an anthropology of health-disease processes in male and female workers. In this paper we summarize the prevailing studies in the field of health in construction, the contributions made from anthropology to the problem of workers’ health will be specified, and some analytical reflections will be shown as a result of an ethnographic study carried out in two construction sites in the city of Rosario between 2009 and 2019. Este artículo presenta una aproximación al estudio de los procesos de salud-enfermedad de los trabajadores de la construcción rosarina. Caracterizada como una industria muy heterogénea, precaria y peligrosa, la bibliografía especializada confiere una centralidad a los riesgos, los accidentes, así como a la seguridad y la prevención. La predominancia de las Ingenierías y la Medicina en el estado de la cuestión revela una determinada construcción médico técnica de la problemática que se centra en lo individual y lo biológico, reproduciendo y trasladando al área laboral la concepción del modelo médico dominante. Esta perspectiva fue cuestionada en América Latina desde los años 70 fundamentalmente por la Medicina Social, que nutrió asimismo a una cantidad de abordajes antropológicos y conformó un arsenal teórico que aún hoy sigue siendo fundamental para una antropología de los procesos de salud-enfermedad de los y las trabajadoras. En el siguiente texto se sintetizan los estudios que prevalecen en el campo de la salud en la construcción; se reconstruyen los aportes realizados desde la antropología al problema de la salud de los trabajadores; y se presentan algunas reflexiones analíticas fruto de un trabajo etnográfico desarrollado en dos obras en construcción de la ciudad de Rosario entre los años 2009 y 2019. Escuela de Antropología - FHyA 2021-10-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/philipp 10.35305/revistadeantropologia.v0iXXIX.145 Revista de la Escuela de Antropología; Núm. XXIX (2021): julio-diciembre 2618-2998 1852-1576 spa https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/philipp/194 https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/philipp/195 Derechos de autor 2021 Gretel Philipp https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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This article presents an approach to the study of the health-disease processes of construction workers in the city of Rosario. Characterized as a very heterogeneous, precarious and dangerous industry, the specialized bibliography confers a centrality to risks and accidents, as well as to safety and prevention. The predominance of Engineering and Medicine in the state of play reveals a certain medical-technical configuration of the problem that focuses on the individual and the biological, reproducing and transferring the conception of the dominant medical model to the workplace. This perspective has been questioned in Latin America since the 70s, mainly by Social Medicine, which also nurtured a number of anthropological approaches and shaped a theoretical arsenal that still today remains fundamental for an anthropology of health-disease processes in male and female workers.
In this paper we summarize the prevailing studies in the field of health in construction, the contributions made from anthropology to the problem of workers’ health will be specified, and some analytical reflections will be shown as a result of an ethnographic study carried out in two construction sites in the city of Rosario between 2009 and 2019. |
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