Às margens de outros mundos: expressões e símbolos religiosos em um Centro de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica no Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This dissertation has the purpose of understanding how the nurses and the families with hospitalized children experience aspect and religious symbologies in the Centro de Terapia Intensiva Pediatrica (CETIP), at the Hospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado in Rio de Janeiro (HFSE). This study seeks to contribute to deepen the discussions about religious belief when facing the illness, leading to understand the complex relationship between patient, family, health professional and religiosity. This approach allows, from a socio anthropological view, to construct models of health-illness which recover the experience, psychosocial, spiritual and religious dimensions. The legitimation of the religiosity in illness situations, healing and confrontation is not only restricted to the family, but also about the recovery of the patient. Among the subjects studied, there was no antagonism between biomedicine and religious phenomenon, but a complementary relationship.