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Representações imaginárias atribuídas ao exame do toque retal por homens belemenses
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2009-08-07) MARQUES, Ana Paula Felippe de Souza; BARRETTO, André Maurício Lima; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3046718437592588
In Brazil, the prostate cancer is an illness that represents the second cause of more frequent death between the men. In the region North, this reality is not different and comes presenting a rhythm of growth accented, according to information of the National Institute of the Cancer - INCA. It is a kind of cancer of slow and possible of being detected and treated evolution before it takes fatal ratios through diverse methods of diagnosis. However, one of the biggest challenges in regards to this detection is the mobilization and envolvement of the masculine population in looking medical aid. This occurs, mainly, because the prevention involves a possible accomplishment of the examination of the retal touch. Thinking about this, this work searched to comprehend which these impediments? Which the involved factors so that the man does not take care of itself, especially in relation to the prostate cancer? The central objective of the work was investigate which the imputed imaginary representations to the examination of the touch? The investigation focus was the apprehension of the meanings. Therefore was opted to the qualitative method line, having for reference the Underlying Discourse Unveiling Method (UDUM). Ten interviews of men had been analyzed, in the age betwen 40 and 60 years. Its discourses had pointed namely that involved hurdles in this impediment exist: motivations of structural order (access difficulty, lack of information), but also hurdles of imaginary order, whose meanings become the resistant citizen to the examination and as consequence if does not prevent, making it difficult the detention of possible illness for subsequent treatment.