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This paper puts forward that the massive use of protocols in biomedicine has created a new kind of materiality for pathology. This is very well depicted by the notion of 'potential object' coined by A.N.Whitehead. Potential objects are a complete and heterogeneous ordering of life. We will call to these orderings, resulting from the shaping of such potential objects, regimes of vitality. They establish different scales of life, actors and the relation between them in biomedical activity. Moreover, they define the temporality in the medical processes, the correct articulation between normality and abnormality and, finally, they produce a set of motility conditions for individuals. Based on a research about protocols on cancer, telecare and epidemics we will pose that movement is inseparable from the "truth" that always appears in the regimes of vitality. In this sense, we will also pose that biomedicine has remove our concern about movement from the political and individual sphere and has put it in the sphere of health and normativity of science. In a nutshell, biomedicine has transformed mobility into correct-and-healthy-movement. ; El texto plantea que la masiva protocolarización de la biomedicina ha creado una nueva materialidad para la patología. Ésta es caracterizada a partir de la noción de 'objeto potencial' que acuñó A.N.Whitehead. Los objetos potenciales constituyen una completa y heterogénea ordenación de la vida. A tales órdenes resultantes de la aparición de un objeto potencial se les denomina 'regímenes de vitalidad'. Éstos se caracterizan por establecer las diferentes escalas de la vida en la actividad médica, la temporalidad de los procesos médicos, por establecer el tipo de relación entre normalidad y anormalidad y, finalmente, por generar un conjunto de condiciones de motilidad para los individuos. A partir de una serie de investigaciones sobre los protocolos médicos del cáncer de mama, los que rigen emergencias sanitarias como las epidemias o implementan la teleasistencia sostendremos que el movimiento es indisociable del juego de verdad que ofrecen los regímenes de vitalidad. También argüiremos que la biomedicina, al hacer lo anterior, ha sustraído la preocupación por el movimiento del plano individual e incluso político y lo ha vinculado con el de la salud, lo científicamente prescriptible y normativo. En suma, ha transformado la movilidad en buen-y-sano-movimiento.

The concept of work-life balance has recently established itself as a key component on route maps drawn up in the pursuit of social sustainability, both on a local scale, represented by individual organizations, and on a more general one, represented by global institutions such as the United Nations. Our article analyzes telework's use as a political tool within organizations that either boost or hinder the development of social sustainability. Additionally, we propose the notion of "life sustainability" to analyze how female teleworkers describe the link between specific work cultures and the possibility of fulfilling social sustainability goals in local work environments through the achievement of a good work-life balance. Our research was performed following a qualitative approach, drawing from a sample of 24 individual interviews and 10 focus groups with a total of 48 participants, all of which are female teleworkers with family responsibilities. Our main findings allow us to summarize the interviewees' social perceptions into two categories, which we have dubbed "life sustainability ecologies" and "presence-based ecologies" We conclude by discussing female teleworkers' claim that work-life balance is directly linked to social sustainability and that the latter goal will remain out of reach as long as the issue of balance goes unresolved.