TRUST, GENDER AND PERSONHOOD IN BIRTH EXPERIENCES IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Rezende,Claudia Barcellos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Vibrant
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412017000300203
• topic: childbirth; trust; doctor-patient relations; personhood; gender

Abstract In narratives of birth of two age groups of middle class women in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, they focused to a great extent on how their experiences had the participation of obstetricians and how trusting them was an important issue. In this article, I want to discuss the recurrent mention of trust in doctor-patient relations, seeking to understand its particular significance in the experiences of birth of the women studied and to contribute to a broader theoretical discussion of trust. Its meaning has to be placed in relation to women´s notions and experiences of pregnancy and birth, which are in turn tied to ideas of personhood, body, gender and are affected by their age group, social standing and race. I argue more generally that trust is not only about establishing cooperative relations, as it often appears in many social sciences studies. Treating trust as a moral relational idiom, I specify that it is more fundamentally about how people are thought to be and how they are expected to behave.