Otwarte ciała, zamknięte światy. Strzykawka w dyskursie i praktykach medycznych / Open Bodies, Closed Worlds. Syringe in Social Discourse and Medical Practice

The article is an essay to capture certain images of body in European culture through the lens of how medical syringe has been transforming. The author presents two variations of the device: one that is used to penetrate natural cavities and an apparatus for injections, which punctures the skin. For the syringe to transform from one from to the other it needed a new interpretation of human physiology and anatomy. Certain microbiological strides as well as development of the society as an institution caring for citizen’s health where also necessary. But for the mentioned factors to appear in such configuration, a specific from of an injecting apparatus constitution seems necessary.

本文为一篇学术随笔，旨在以医疗注射器（medical syringe）的演变为视角，探析欧洲文化中的若干身体意象。作者阐述了该器械的两种变体：一种用于穿刺自然腔道，另一种为刺入皮肤的注射装置。注射器要实现从一种形态到另一种形态的转变，有赖于对人体生理学与解剖学的全新阐释。此外，微生物学领域的若干突破性进展，以及将社会构建为公民健康守护机构的发展进程，亦为不可或缺的前提。但要使上述因素以特定组合形式呈现，则需确立一种特定形态的注射器械。