O nascimento biopolítico: convocações dos dispositivos de mídia em prol da cesariana e do medo do parto

• Autor(a) principal: Kênia, Míriam
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19112
• topic: Cesariana; Parto; Biopolítica; C-section; Birth; Biopolitic; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

The Research investigates the biopolitic convocations around child birth methods, C-section and normal birth, in the media, in relationship websites, social media and in the communication within the maternity centers. The speeches and narratives are built around fear and support the paradox: normal and safe to do is a C-section; strange and risky is the normal birth. This media strategy, considered a device in the Focault and Agamben concept, more than fulfill the position of spreading the word and legitimating the biopolitic speech, but is also responsible for building this model. The bio politic guidelines around childbirth are anchored in the control of the body and in bio economics, according to Nikolas Rose. By taking the woman from the scene and outsourcing the protagonist of child birth to the doctor, this assistance model makes the female body more controllable and productive. After all, the current biopolitic is focused in the increasing capacities to control, manage, plan, and remodeled the vital capacities. And how to do that? The media, with its convocations, teaches. It is also attempted to investigate, by means of Bodymedia theory, the changes in the body immersed in the C-section environment, that passes through cognitive changes and causes several other modifications in the environment