Reprodução e biopolítica: infertilidades e práticas de saúde em um serviço público no Rio de Janeiro

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Alfano, Bianca
• Orientador(a): Arán, Márcia Ramos
• Banca de defesa: Loyola, Maria Andrea Rios , Corrêa, Marilena Cordeiro Dias Villela , Jannotti, Claudia Bonan
• 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 Saúde Coletiva
• Departamento: Centro Biomédico::Instituto de Medicina Social
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Novas tecnologias reprodutivas; Infertilidade; Biopolítica; Gênero; Sexualidade; Sistema Único de Saúde (Brasil)
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: New reproductive technologies; Infertility; Biopolitic; Gender; Sexuality; Unified Health System
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4074

Despite assisted reproduction enable important transformations on kinship and family relationships, their technologies have been most frequently used to reiterate the traditional model of biological and social reproduction. This qualitative and exploratory study analyzed which norms would be present on health practices related to reproduction difficulties and what would be revealed by these practices. There were observed interactions between professionals and patients attended on a human reproduction public service of Rio de Janeiro. The discussion of infertility and risk diagnoses, two important biopolitical strategies used as eligibility criteria of access to new reproduction technologies, revealed how some health practices reiterate gender and social reproductions regulations. Associated to socioeconomic condition of their users, these diagnoses tend to exacerbate the exclusions and the inequalities on reproduction rights in Brazil. The analysis of medical attention made possible knowing not only part of men s and women s everyday difficulties, who persist in their desires for children for years, but also of professionals that have to face old political, economic and bureaucratic barriers of public health services. This study corroborate the opinion that the observed service represents an advance in sexual and reproductive rights, in spite of the still long way to equally and equitable access to reproductive technologies in Brazilian public health system (SUS).