Banca de DEFESA: MARIANA RAMOS PITTA LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARIANA RAMOS PITTA LIMA
DATE: 21/06/2022
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83344063292?pwd=TkJUd05OL21EeXduUlVKNGpRT2tNQT09
TITLE:

Biomedical technologies and abortion in a public maternity hospital in Salvador/Bahia.

KEY WORDS:

Reproductive Technologies; Abortion; Collective Health; Anthropology of Reproduction; Reproductive Health.

PAGES: 300
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Saúde Coletiva
SUMMARY:

This thesis analyses the practices of biomedical technologies in abortion-related care in a public maternity hospital in Salvador, Bahia, from an ethnographic approach. This ethnography is about the technologies that are part of women's reproductive and abortion itinerary and post-abortion hospital care in Salvador, Bahia, focusing on obstetric ultrasonography (USG). Participant observations were conducted in a public maternity hospital and in lectures and events in the area of ultrasonography, in addition to in-depth and informal interviews with women and health professionals. The main argument I defend in this thesis is that biomedical technologies, or reproductive technologies specifically, including obstetric USG, assume different agencies and participate in relation with human actors, women and professionals, in the production of multiple realities and knowledges about reproductive issues or reproductive control - among them pregnancy, abortion - given the space, time and layers of the body where they intervene and are practiced, in specific places where they are situated. It is also central to the argument that the hospital is an encompassing technology in abortion care in Salvador. In this, technologies establish social relations, which are marked by the hospital itself, an overarching technology in abortion care in Salvador. It proposes the notion of 'epistemological itineraries' to synthesise the production of women's knowledge throughout the procreative and abortion process, in relation to technologies, about their own bodies and the content that is formed in the uterus during pregnancy, visualisation and its expulsion. It shows how stratification collaborates in the production of these multiple realities, whether from the point of view of health professionals or women. It discusses the relationship between the device industry, and the dichotomies between public and private services. The biomedical technologies practiced in the hospital are examined, among these, protocols, charts, USG and curettage. It concludes that the hospital as a technology - and the multiple realities emerging therein - participate in the production of reproductive (in)justice (freedom and justice).

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - NAARA LÚCIA DE ALBUQUERQUE LUNA - UFRRJ
Externa à Instituição - ROSANA MARIA NASCIMENTO CASTRO SILVA - UERJ
Externa à Instituição - EMILIA SANABRIA - CNRS
Presidente - 1678241 - CECILIA ANNE MCCALLUM
Interna - 405.836.197-20 - ESTELA MARIA MOTTA LIMA LEAO DE AQUINO - UFBA
Externa à Instituição - GREICE MARIA DE SOUZA MENEZES - UFBA