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0079/2025 - Human enhancement in iatrogenic times
Biomelhoramento moral em tempos iatrogênicos

Author:

• Izabela Amaral Caixeta - Caixeta, I.A - <izacamal18@gmail.com>ORCID
ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-2103-187X

Co-author(s):

• Rudhra Gallina - Gallina, R. - <rudhragallina@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0009 0009 6310 2518


Abstract:

This text aims to critically promote the concept of iatrogenesis based on the contributions of the thinker Ivan Illich to the fields of Bioethics and Public Health. Based on a literature review with a qualitative approach, the proposal is to understand how iatrogenic expressions, in particular iatrogenesis of the body, establish dialogues with the recent hegemonic bibliography on "human iemhecement" and its disputed glossary, in particular, the North-situated transhumanist and bioliberal current. As a result and discussion, we emphasize that thinking about a "perfect", "healthy", "improved" body is necessarily followed by a hegemonic image-thought of bodies that are the universal standards of humanity, that is, white, heteronormative, masculine, individual-self-sufficient bodies, revealing the modern/colonial facet of this moral imperialism. Finally, we highlight the role of the coloniality of life as a reflection of iatrogenies in the structure of the social body, showing the importance of a bioethical way of doing/thinking/acting that is critical of a single Western notion of humanity to be improved.

Keywords:

iatrogenic disease; human enhancement; colonialism; bioethics.

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