De peito aberto: câncer e gestão do cotidiano entre mulheres

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Ruth Helena de Souza Britto Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4607
• topic: Breast cancer; Gender; Body; Doctor-patient relationship; Family; Câncer de mama; Gênero; Corpo; Relação médico-paciente; Família; Subjetividade; Imagem corporal; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The goal of this thesis is to analyze illness experiences and their repercussions on the everyday life, starting from the narrative of women who have had breast cancer and have submitted themselves to medical treatment. The participant observation conducted was taken place in a , during the years 2005/2006. During this support association time followed the activities proposed by a group of health professional volunteers, which aimed at rescuing the self-esteem of those women. In order to apprehend the values that guide behaviors and discourses about the disease, I analyzed the dialogue between these professionals and the "object? of their intervention, composed almost entirely of Brazilian lower-class women. Besides the more hierarchical relationship between experts and the women, I analyzed the more egalitarian dialogue established by those women among themselves, and their concern about their lives, and their etiological conceptions about the disease. The focus is on everyday ways of managing the marks of cancer in their bodies related to conjugality and domestic labor, and on suffering and distress as institutive of a kind of femininity.