Medicações, rezas e chás: a saúde e a doença “entre” híbridos e rizoma

Abstract

This study, conducted from a field research held in Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde (MG), has as its central theme the dynamics that are present in the formation of lived experiences of a group of people with regard to the health and the sickness and, as result, the therapeutics practices arised from these processes. The body-subject agency several meanings and significants that when interpenetrate and interconnect with other contexts will become part in the composition of the concepts of health and sickness and, ultimately, the social intertices of the town studied by establishing the so-called space “between”. That is, an area where interpenetrate many aspects of the networks of social relations without a specific boundary or limit of these elements and thereby advancing the mode of being-in-the-world in each subject. The analyze will be established about the actions and interactions of patients with their social ambience, with the promoters of health care – with the Program of Family Health as a background – and among themselves. There is to highlight that patients transiting by a multifaceted universe of therapeutics possibilities without evidence of fragmentation and specificity such as having to choose between medications, prayers or teas. These elements consolidate a set of practices in which the search for health adds simultaneously several factors and sceneries. Thus, two key issues of this study are: there is a level of tension between members of the health official system and the popular methods or non-professional caregivers? And from this, how are the practices related to health and sickness established in daily life of patients?