Medicina Popular e Sistema Público de Saúde: a circularidade da saúde/doença a comunidade Nossa Senhora das Graças e a cidade de Manacapuru/AM

Abstract

This work addresses the concepts and practices of health care in the community Nossa Senhora das Graças, the rural municipality of Manacapuru, Amazonas, and in the urban area, with doctors and other health professionals belonging to the hospital Lázaro Reis and maternity Cecilia Cabral. It was based on ethnographic research, through which we can verify the complementarity of different practices, drawn from folk medicine and of the Public Health realized that the health practices of the community establish a deep symbolic and material exchange with the city in form of an herbal, allopathic medicine, the care of vaccination, birth in the maternity ward, the demand for prayers and catchers desmentidura the city and the community, among others. The prayers have significant role in the treatment of various diseases, and many patients as they seek to cure specialists and doctors, acting in tandem with the professional practices of Public Health observed specifics regarding medical practice of health professionals in Manacapuru, adopting a stance closer to the midwives, prayers and knowledge of medicinal plants in health care, differentiating, so the daily medical practice the precepts and principles of biomedicine.