Corpos que cuidam: uma etnografia das práticas em enfermagem

Abstract

The present work aimed to understand the corporeality present in the practices of nursing, tracing as a focus of analysis the understanding of how doing these professionals involves a particular body modulation, constituting an important part of their learning. Thus, we start from the premise that the body would consist of a social and cultural construction, understood not only as a surface on which the socio-cultural aspects would be inscribed, but as a matrix of meanings, through which the subjects' experience acquires meaning. In this sense, we conducted our investigation through an ethnography carried out with students and professors from the Faculty of Nursing of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, through which we undertook a dive under the various practices that are typical of nurses and nurses, which allowed us to understand how the body presented itself as a central dimension through which students were built as nursing professionals. Thus, we will try to point out how the nurse body was built in its postures, gestures, movements and sensorialities and that, trained by a particular knowledge, it was able to move in a specific way and able to detect imperceptible aspects in front of lay senses. Finally, we will show how the construction of the body dimension involves also a construction of sensibilities, expressed by a management of emotions through the body.