Modos de subjetivação em redes de saúde, vistos através das narrativas sobre fantasmas das Termas de Araxá: um estudo de caso

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Maria Aparecida dos
• Orientador(a): Rodrigues, Heliana de Barros Conde
• Banca de defesa: Moraes, Marcia Oliveira , Arendt, Ronald João Jacques , Rocha, Marisa Lopes da , Silva, Nádia Filomena Ribeiro da
• 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 Psicologia Social
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Psicologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Psicologia social - Subjetividade; Alucinações e ilusões - Aspectos sociais; Medo - Aspectos sociais; Saúde ambiental - Políticas públicas - Araxá (MG); Fantasmas; Saúde; Políticas públicas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Ghosts; Health; Public policies
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15263

Through reports of ghost apparitions at a thermal waters resort (located in Barreiro de Araxá, State of Minas Gerais) which had gone from a place of cure and health treatment to a place of leisure and beauty, this work has sought to follow leadson the rise, fall and rebirth of thermalism in Brazil; on the problem of Barreiro's mineral waters contamination; and on the public policies'incongruencies. These aspects have had multiple impacts on thermal resorts' workers and on the local population, provoking the occurrence of manifestations such as fear, apparition of ghosts, quarrels and loss of health. The researcher adopts as methodological inspiration the works by Alessandro Portelli with Oral History to obtain and follow upon the reports; Michel Foucault's genealogy is also used in order to introduce the changes in the concepts of health and of therapy in time; at last, Bruno Latour's Actor Network Theory (ANT) is employed to follow up both human and non-human. The work also underlines "self-care" as an ethical form of being in the world, with atendency to make life powerful and creative, thus making it possible for someone to become his/her own doctor. This way, it is understood that the new therapies being implemented by the SUS - Altenative and Complementary Therapies - may be viable, specially the one called Social Thermalism, as long as a break from the simple practices of life control of populations is assured.