Author:

• Rubia Carla Formighieri Giordani - Giordani, R. C. F. - <rubiagiordani@gmail.com, rubiagiordani@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5698-7981

Co-author(s):

• Marisete Teresinha Hoffmann-Horochovski - Hoffmann-Horochovski, M.T - <marisetehh@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5220-3614

Abstract:

The aim of this essay is to provide a brief reflection on the contemporary ethics imposed on the body, which points to a growing responsibility and obligation of the individual regarding healthy and correct ways of living. The central object of analysis is the body constitution in modernity, in a technical intervention space, problematizing contemporary forms of taking care of the body, diet, and physical exercises, which express taxonomies of the matrix of meanings in modernity.

Keywords:

Corporality, science, health, society.

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