Los debates en torno a la sanción de la Ley Nacional de Salud Mental 26.657 : ensayo de lecturas e interrogaciones en clave habermasiana
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2019
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Escuela de Trabajo Social. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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La aprobación en el Congreso
Nacional de la Ley de Protección a
la Salud Mental N° 26.657 en el año
2010, y su posterior reglamentación
en el año 2013, constituyó un
acontecimiento histórico en el campo
de la salud mental en nuestro país.
La misma se funda en un enfoque
de derechos y en una perspectiva
interdisciplinaria, impulsando una
ruptura de la hegemonía médica en
los modos históricos de abordar la
cuestión de la locura. En el presente
trabajo proponemos interrogar
los procedimientos mediante los
cuales se sanciona dicha ley, a
partir de algunas claves teóricas
que ofrece la teoría de Jürgen
Habermas. Para ello recuperamos
las versiones taquigráficas de los
debates legislativos en el ámbito del
Senado de la Nación, identificando
los principales tópicos en discusión,
los actores que participan y los
intereses más relevantes que se
pusieron en juego. Posteriormente,
establecemos algunas coordenadas
de la teoría habermasiana a partir
de las cuales ensayamos tres líneas
de interpelación al proceso de
debate y sanción de la ley bajo
análisis. La primera en clave de
la autolegislación de ciudadanos
políticamente autónomos, la segunda
en clave de una experiencia de
política deliberativa y la tercera
en clave de las posibilidades
y límites de las enunciaciones
en los procesos de diálogo.
The approval of 2010 National Law on the Protection of the Mental Health No. 26,657, and its subsequent regulation in the year 2013, was a historic event in the field of mental health in Argentina. This law is supported on a rights-based approach and in an interdisciplinary perspective, and means a rupture of the medical hegemony in the historical ways of dealing with the issue of madness. In this paper we interrogate the procedures by which this law was approved, on the basis of some theoretical keys offered by the theory of Jürgen Habermas. To do this we recover the verbatim reports of the legislative debates in the Senate, identifying the main topics under discussion, the actors involved and the most relevant interests were at stake. Subsequently, we set some approaches of the Habermasian theory from which we rehearse three lines of questioning the process of debate and enactment of the law under analysis. The first one about the autolegislation of citizens politically autonomous, the second one about the deliberative policy experience, and the third one about the possibilities and limits of the statements in the dialog processes.
The approval of 2010 National Law on the Protection of the Mental Health No. 26,657, and its subsequent regulation in the year 2013, was a historic event in the field of mental health in Argentina. This law is supported on a rights-based approach and in an interdisciplinary perspective, and means a rupture of the medical hegemony in the historical ways of dealing with the issue of madness. In this paper we interrogate the procedures by which this law was approved, on the basis of some theoretical keys offered by the theory of Jürgen Habermas. To do this we recover the verbatim reports of the legislative debates in the Senate, identifying the main topics under discussion, the actors involved and the most relevant interests were at stake. Subsequently, we set some approaches of the Habermasian theory from which we rehearse three lines of questioning the process of debate and enactment of the law under analysis. The first one about the autolegislation of citizens politically autonomous, the second one about the deliberative policy experience, and the third one about the possibilities and limits of the statements in the dialog processes.
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Ley Nacional de Salud Mental 26.657, Salud mental, Argentina, Legislación, Mental health, Legislation, Argentina