Would medicine be such a biomedical?

biopolitical displacements, LGBT population and health care

Abstract

If it was from the myth of an ontological homogeneity, based on biology, that western medicine was supposedly structured, we point out with this article how much a discursive heterogeneity emerges in the field of medicine itself, at the moment when it is faced with the health care of a population invented as LGBT. From interviews with doctors of the basic health network, we observed how much what that has been called the "LGBT population" becomes the object of biopolitics when we abandon of this other that we call "health care" and how much of this points to the fractures, contingencies and ambivalences of the medical apparatus. In this way, we show how much medicine is configured in a field of heterogeneous multiplicities, and, therefore, it is not as biomedical, as it itself makes a point of announcing.