Auto-Hemoterapia e a invenção da biomedicina: um estudo sociológico sobre controvérsias médicas no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Teógenes Luiz Silva da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Sociologia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Auto-Hemoterapia; Auto-Hemotherapy; Sociologia da saúde; Saber-poder; Poder simbólico; Sociology of Health; Knowledge-power; Symbolic power; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7807

This work addresses the controversies within Medicine about health practices considered scientific or not. This research will address the process of health-disease from a social-anthropological perspective. It is considered as empirical cut the prohibition (assigned by the National Health Surveillance Agency- ANVISA) directed at health professionals, the use of therapeutic method called Auto-Hemotherapy (AH), such as technical reclaim legitimacy while legal medical knowledge . Different methodological tools were used, such as: documentary research, interviews, reports on television media (among others). This practice constitutes the use of autologous blood (blood of individual in treatment), punctured the blood stream and applied immediately in the muscle of the practitioner. I try to understand of legitimizing practices that are now considered scientific, sometimes illegitimate. The conclusion of this research concerns to once again, the Social Sciences and Biomedicines debate on new directions for studies about the processes of health-disease.