A representação social do ser homem para homens heterossexuais e a vulnerabilidade para o HIV/AIDS

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Domingues, Priscila da Silva
• Orientador(a): Gomes, Antonio Marcos Tosoli
• Banca de defesa: Daher, Donizete Vago , Pecora, Ana Rafaela
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem
• Departamento: Centro Biomédico::Faculdade de Enfermagem
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Saúde do homem; HIV; Masculinidade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: HIV; Masculinity
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM::ENFERMAGEM DE DOENCAS CONTAGIOSAS
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11335

Introduction: The National Policy on Health Care for the man comes to understand the uniqueness men in their various socio- cultural contexts. The policy behind as one of its objectives to promote, in the male population, together with the National STD/ AIDS prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection . The research aims to screen: Identify the social representation of a man to men who refer to as heterosexuals; describe the social and cultural practices that can lead man to be exposed to HIV, and analyze the social representation of a man and his relationship with the vulnerability to HIV infection. Methodology: This was a qualitative study, based on the Theory of Social Representations, held at CTA in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, with the participation of 08 subjects, with which semi-structured interviews were developed. Data were analyzed using content analysis. Results: Data analysis four categories, namely, the social representation of human being emerged: images, behaviors, and commitments, and the romanticized ideal man: character, success, and hero image, the real man: individualism, attachment to machinery male knack and sexual life, and reified universe of aids and the construction of prejudice. The idea of the ideal man appears to the subject as who does what is politically correct and that, in turn, follows the norms of the surrounding society. For them is to split masculinity and virility man is, by nature, be regarded as sexually insatiable. Respondents pointed to an evaluative dimension of the real man, as an individualistic subject and hedonistic practices and unbridled sexual practice. However, protection by the HIV infection is represented by marital fidelity, where considered appropriate sexual behavior serves as immunization against infection. The subjects had a romanticized ideal man as a being, breaking the stereotype that has men in society, how hard, unfaithful and domineering man. From the study it was found that the respondents have a reified view of the disease and represent aids as a disease others. Conclusion / contributions to nursing: An understanding of man today can bring in further discussions with regard to the construction the same social, as well as its implications on existing for HIV/ AIDS vulnerabilities in order to deconstruct myths and taboos that permeate the cultural issue of what being masculine, so to understand this subject in the context of health services and work healthy male social and sexual practices.