Uma prática chamada homem: hormônios, vasodilatadores, dissecações e próteses
Data
2023-08-18
Autores
Girotto, Lucio Costa 
Orientadores
Pereira, Pedro Paulo Gomes
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Tese de doutorado
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O objetivo desta tese foi descrever e analisar as relações de homens com tecnologias que modificam corpos e subjetivam vidas. Realizando uma etnografia em um ambulatório de andrologia e em um centro cirúrgico de mamoplastia masculinizadora, busquei acompanhar tecnologias, diagnósticos e homens que frequentavam esses ambulatórios. Para isso me orientei pela metodologia da praxiografia, que me ajudou acompanhar ontologias de corpos e tecnologias nos encontros das práticas em saúde. A pesquisa se voltou para as materialidades envolvidas, como as cirurgias de próteses penianas e mamoplastias masculinizadoras, vasodilatadores e hormônios de testosterona e os diagnósticos de Disfunção Erétil, hipogonadismo ou distúrbio andrógino do envelhencimento; e “Incongruência de gênero”. Nesses encontros descrevo a emergência dos vasodilatadores para o tratamento da Disfunção Erétil e com que, por meio deles, inventa-se a saúde sexual do homem idoso e também a clínica urológica. Também descrevo próteses penianas que imitam a natureza mais natural de animais, e as controvérsias interdisciplinares entre urologistas e psicólogas no ambulatório de andrologia. Acompanhei a testosterona nos dois ambulatórios, descrevi brevemente sua história sociotécnica para então, por meio dos relato de homens acompanhar suas múltiplas ontologias. Também ouvi, aprendi e descrevi como homens praticavam e se aliavam com tecnologias pela falta e afeto.
The objective of this thesis was to describe and analyze the relationships between men and technologies that modify bodies and subjectify lives. Conducting an ethnography in an andrology outpatient clinic and a masculinizing mammoplasty surgical center, I sought to follow technologies, diagnoses, and men who frequented these clinics. For this, I relied on the methodology of praxiography, which helped me follow ontologies of bodies and technologies in the encounters of health practices. The research focused on the involved materialities, such as penile prosthesis surgeries and masculinizing mammoplasties, vasodilators and testosterone hormones, and diagnoses of Erectile Dysfunction, hypogonadism, or androgenic aging disorder; and "Gender Incongruence". In these encounters, I describe the emergence of vasodilators for the treatment of Erectile Dysfunction and how, through them, the sexual health of older men and urological clinics is invented. I also describe penile prostheses that mimic the more natural nature of animals, and the interdisciplinary controversies between urologists and psychologists in the andrology outpatient clinic. I followed testosterone in both clinics, briefly describing its sociotechnical history and then, through the accounts of men, following their multiple ontologies. I also listened, learned, and described how men practiced and allied themselves with technologies through lack and affection.
The objective of this thesis was to describe and analyze the relationships between men and technologies that modify bodies and subjectify lives. Conducting an ethnography in an andrology outpatient clinic and a masculinizing mammoplasty surgical center, I sought to follow technologies, diagnoses, and men who frequented these clinics. For this, I relied on the methodology of praxiography, which helped me follow ontologies of bodies and technologies in the encounters of health practices. The research focused on the involved materialities, such as penile prosthesis surgeries and masculinizing mammoplasties, vasodilators and testosterone hormones, and diagnoses of Erectile Dysfunction, hypogonadism, or androgenic aging disorder; and "Gender Incongruence". In these encounters, I describe the emergence of vasodilators for the treatment of Erectile Dysfunction and how, through them, the sexual health of older men and urological clinics is invented. I also describe penile prostheses that mimic the more natural nature of animals, and the interdisciplinary controversies between urologists and psychologists in the andrology outpatient clinic. I followed testosterone in both clinics, briefly describing its sociotechnical history and then, through the accounts of men, following their multiple ontologies. I also listened, learned, and described how men practiced and allied themselves with technologies through lack and affection.