50 tons de branco: a representação da relação médico-paciente na telenovela

Abstract

The study seeks to understand how the forms of relationship of power between medical and patients are represented in the fictional works "Amor à Vida" and "Em Família". The study approaches the medical literature to know the professionals' point of view and to approach the field of communication through the study of Brazilian teledramaturgy. The aim is to analyze the scenes of representation among those involved to understand how the dramaturgic scenarios put on the scene the way that the doctors relate to their patients and the way that the perception is used within the scene to understand the aspects not verbalized in the medical consultation. The methodology of content analysis was used in all corpus of each novel, focusing only on the scenes in which there is professional involvement with the group of medical characters to understand the way this situation permeates.