Mulheres e saúde: "cortadas, "costuradas", "ocas"... mas plenas de vida: percepções do corpo feminino

Abstract

The human body is profoundly marked not only by biological aspects, but also and mainly by cultural aspects. The female body has been influenced by factors cited and is the focus of this dissertation, which is to submit proposal description ethnographic and anthropological analysis of situations involving the loss of organs or the surgeries affecting the female body when they relate to situations typified as "female ". The research has the locus of the city of Belém do Pará and communication with three groups of women: the nursing staff working in the infirmary “Santa Maria”, in “Santa Casa de Misericordia do Pará” and two groups of women "operated", the first consisting of women who were operated on the “Santa Casa” and met in “Santa Maria” and the second in women operated in other hospitals, which do not meet the SUS.