Inscrita no corpo, gravada na carne : experiência de ser queimada em mulheres nordestinas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The present work, entitled Enrolled in the body, recorded in the meat: experience of being burnt in women northeasterns, has as objective right to a preferential share, the human experience of being serverly burned goes far beyond biomedicines hegemoico rationality or classification. This anthropological study investigates illnesses meanings attitubuted by women who have suffered burns in order to humanize care. From January to October 2009, this research was conducted in a Burn Treatment Center in a public hospital in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Five "information rich cases" were identified for in-depth analysis. Ethnographic interviews, narratives of lived-experience and participant-observation were utilized. Contextualized Semantic Interpretation" revealed bodily, symbolic scares, the significance of "raw and toasted meat" and the overcoming of trauma. Metaphores emerged weighted-down with cultural significance of "monsterous" bodily appearance and gender violence. Burn scares not only disfigure, they also blemish ones moral reputation. Narratives allow for a revealing, innovative look at the naked" human face, obscured behind hypertrophic scares, contraturas and deformities. Values, prejuedice and emotions are hidden behind staticstical data. The remoralization of burned and traumatized women depends on a"hyperdermic cure"- a soul cure.

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mulheres - saÚde - dissertaÇÕes queimaduras - dissertaÇÕes saude coletiva antropologia cultural - dissertaÇÕes

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