Entre veias e fios: uma etnografia na hemodiálise
Data
2021-05-14
Autores
Corrêa, Pedro Rabello Brasil
Orientadores
Sarti, Cynthia
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Dissertação de mestrado
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A presente dissertação aborda os impactos da hemodiálise sobre a vida e os cuidados com o corpo e a doença renal crônica, enfocando as relações entre os humanos e a máquina. Atualmente, a tecnologia já faz parte do cotidiano biomédico: as máquinas ajudam os médicos na elaboração dos diagnósticos e nos procedimentos terapêuticos. O próprio corpo adquire novas formas, contornos e conteúdos antes pensáveis somente por autores de ficção científica. Com o surgimento dos ciborgues, o tratamento das doenças foi elevado a novos patamares tecnológicos, mais avançados e refinados, porém ainda revestidos de mistérios. A nossa corporeidade continua a ser oriunda dos significados compartilhados pelos membros da sociedade. Entretanto, é inegável que esses significados vêm se alterando cada vez mais conforme o homem engendra sua simbiose com a máquina. Os hospitais são os espaços por excelência desse processo: ali os pacientes estão vinculados ao maquinário que busca assegurar o tratamento e a cura. A partir de um trabalho de observação etnográfica, realizado em uma clínica de hemodiálise de um hospital público na cidade de São Paulo/SP, além de entrevistas com os pacientes e profissionais da mesma, viso compreender as implicações dos recursos tecnológicos na experiência da doença, assim como o modo em que a eficácia do tratamento é pensada e vivida.
This dissertation approach the impacts of hemodialysis on life and cares with body and chronic kidney disease, focusing on the relationship between humans and machine. Nowadays, technology is already part of the biomedical routine: the machines help doctors in the elaborations of diagnoses and disease cure processes. The body itself acquires new forms, contours and contents previously thought only by science fiction authors. With the advent of cyborgs, the treatment of diseases was raised to new technological levels, more advanced and refined, but covered with mysterious yet. Our corporeality continues to come from the meanings shared by members of society. However, it is undeniable that these meanings have been changing more and more as man engenders his symbiosis with the machine. Hospitals are the spaces for excellence of this process: patients are connected to the machinery that seeks to preserve treatment and cure. Based on the work of ethnographic observation, carried out in a hemodialysis clinic of a public hospital in the city of São Paulo/SP, besides interviews with patients and professionals of the same, I aim to understand the implications of technical resources in the experience of the disease, as well as the way that treatment effectiveness is thought and lived.
This dissertation approach the impacts of hemodialysis on life and cares with body and chronic kidney disease, focusing on the relationship between humans and machine. Nowadays, technology is already part of the biomedical routine: the machines help doctors in the elaborations of diagnoses and disease cure processes. The body itself acquires new forms, contours and contents previously thought only by science fiction authors. With the advent of cyborgs, the treatment of diseases was raised to new technological levels, more advanced and refined, but covered with mysterious yet. Our corporeality continues to come from the meanings shared by members of society. However, it is undeniable that these meanings have been changing more and more as man engenders his symbiosis with the machine. Hospitals are the spaces for excellence of this process: patients are connected to the machinery that seeks to preserve treatment and cure. Based on the work of ethnographic observation, carried out in a hemodialysis clinic of a public hospital in the city of São Paulo/SP, besides interviews with patients and professionals of the same, I aim to understand the implications of technical resources in the experience of the disease, as well as the way that treatment effectiveness is thought and lived.