Viruses, pipes and cares: an etnography about care and drugs during the covid pandemic

Author(s)

João Balieiro Bardy

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2022-02-23

Examining board members

Taniele Rui; Maria Paula Gomes dos Santos; Bruno Ferrari Emerich

• Advisor: Taniele Rui

Abstract

The present dissertation is carried out by a composition that seeks to understand how the care of people who make problematic use of psychoactive substances takes place in a CAPS AD III in the municipality of Campinas - SP through an ethnographic immersion. Based on the trajectories narrated by users who attend a CAPS AD in Campinas and the professionals who work there, this thesis aims to understand the relationships that make the care of drug users possible; from the macro political levels that make up the legal support of CAPS AD, to the management of CAPS AD and its interconnection with the micropolitics that make up the daily life. In an ethnographic field marked by the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, contextual difficulties are superimposed on the precariousness of public health policies - Unified Health System (SUS) and the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS). A total of five months of fieldwork was conducted (from January to March 2021 and from October to November of the same year) in a CAPS AD III in Campinas. Thus, guided by the search to understand how it was possible to perform psychosocial care at that time, this research proposes to enunciate and interweave personal trajectories with bureaucratic technologies, historical processes and devices of biopolitical control (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 20/13958-1 - Disputes over mental health and care for problematic drug users in Brazil
• Grantee: João Balieiro Bardy
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master