BENZEDEIRAS/OS, WELLBEING AND SOCIOSPATIALITY

• Autor(a) principal: Soek, Felipe José
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Mendonça, Francisco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hygeia (Uberlândia)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/hygeia/article/view/62547
• topic: Geografia da saúde; Práticas Alternativas; Medicina Popular; Promoção de Saúde; Health Geography; Alternative Practices; Popular Medicine; Health Promotion

The text discusses human health from the perspective of the wellbeing concept, specifically through the realities of benzedeiras/os. The approach takes place in the field of decolonial perspective of knowledge, as it turns to the work of agents practicing the traditional knowledge of healing. Which bears the trust of their communities and aid the medical and scientific work in relation to the healthcare of individuals and groups. For that, the research resorted to bibliographic survey utilizing the “snowball” method, that allowed the building of the analysis developed here. The wellbeing concept is still widely discussed and has multiple interpretations. Starting from different epistemologies, this text helps to understand how the benzeção activity can serve to promote and complement wellbeing and, through this, the human health. The approach developed highlights the importance that benzedeiras/os have to the health of their communities, acting jointly in favor to the fortification of the wellbeing of the sick. It also highlights some perspectives of their socio-spatial dimension, at the same time that it points out to the necessity of further research of this perspective in the field of geography.