The multiplicity of congenital Zika syndrome.
Congenital Zika Syndrome; Multiple Realities; Families; Practices; Caution.
At the end of 2015, the birth of children whose bodies had a functioning that did not correspond to the standards known and considered normal in cities in northeastern Brazil, attracted the attention of the whole world. An unprecedented phenomenon that brings in its genesis issues of health, social, political and economic and that caused numerous developments, mobilizing various agents. The main objective of this work was to explore the modes of action of what was promulgated to call, in biomedical terms, Congenital Zika Syndrome (CSZ). In this path, assumptions were adopted from the New Approaches to research and knowledge production in the Social Sciences of Health, from the Actor-Network Theory, based mainly on the work of the ethnographer Annemarie Mol. Using the concept of multiple realities, we started from practices of families who participated in an intervention project that aimed to expand the knowledge and skills of families of children diagnosed with scz. From practices articulated to fieldwork, multiple versions of the disease and the interconnections between its performances were identified in which the various congenital Zika syndromes were being produced and distributed in different ways, in different contexts, resulting in different realities.