Uma ficção sobre a estratégia de saúde da família: suas práticas como rituais

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the Family Health Strategy (Estratégia de Saúde da Família - ESF) and health policy entitled Humaniza SUS. To do so will draw the so-called "soft technologies", or "body technologies" as ways of caring for others, coupled with the anthropological focus on ritual and ritualistic practices. Our argument is the opposition between practices and stereotyped practices recreated by the constant possibility of affecting the subjects live in ordinary life. The way the meanings given by each agent when they refer to practices peculiar to the ESF, such as home visits and educational groups, allow us to understand the processes of transformation of bodies, where each actor embodies his past experiences and recreate meanings for this action. We started from ethnographic cases to question the design of a single body biomedical, demonstrating the multiplicity of bodies involving different paths through life.