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| Author(s): |
Andréia Aparecida Ferreira Lopes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2010-03-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Guita Grin Debert;
Jane Russo;
Cynthia Andersen Sarti;
Ana Maria Canesqui;
Paulo Dalgalarrondo
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| Advisor: | Guita Grin Debert |
| Abstract | |
In this work I analyze the factors that provide a special meaning to what could be understood as the process of becoming diabetic: the way by means of which the experience with diabetes affects the body cares, the redefinition of lifestyles, and the kinds of associations. I explore the way by which men and women from different socioeconomic segments, aged between 48 and 90, pass through a learning process about the diabetes cares involving the adoption of certain values, knowledge and practices as part of the diabetic identities they are supposed to take on. I adopt a qualitative methodology involving an ethnography centered in practices developed in a specific diabetics association situated in the city of São Paulo and in other kinds of diabetics associations as well. The approach that I adopt is oriented by the paradigm of embodiment, emphasizing the way in which the body appears in discourses and accounts that occur in educational activities and other forms of sociability taking place in these associations. It is shown that the diabetics associations constitute articulator axes of the representations about an ideal diabetic's model and that they promote sociability forms capable of supporting those people whose identities have been affected by diabetes. This identity restructuring process is viewed both from the reflexive modernity perspective and the consumer culture one, thus suggesting specific manifestations of biopolitics in contemporary Brazilian society. (AU) | |