Compreensão fenomenológica da concepção de saúde/doença de ribeirinhos na região metropolitana de Manaus

Abstract

The inhabitants of the riverbanks and communities next to the Amazon rivers are called riparian peoples. They have – transgenerational element – a whole framework of knowledge about the health-disease process. Given the exiguity of bibliographic material produced by the look of this Amazonian for this dyad is that this research has as objective understand the attributed meaning by people of two riverside communities of the metropolitan region of the city of Manaus about the dyad health-disease from the Martin Heidegger’s philosophy. It’s a research under the qualitative bias and used the assumptions of the phenomenological method, with a descriptive and exploratory feature. It was performed a phenomenological interview, audio recorded, starting from a guiding question and its deployments. For the comprehension of the living experiences was used the Martin Heidegger’s theoretical framework. Were considered collaborators of this research 10 participants (5 men and 5 women) that live in the metropolitan region of Manaus and identify themselves with the riverine specificities. The results originated 5 categories: “Care: human world and own world”, “Body and Habits “, “Structure of Health Services”, “Religiosity – ‘The Guy Upstairs’” and “Facticity: The being-to-the-death is expressed or the possibility of cannot-be”, and its subcategories. The conception of health and disease that arose from the data take us to understand it in two axis, the relational: the care about itself and its body, its relation with the others, at take care and be cared, with the divine/religious and in the contact with the death; and in the structural axis: in the compliments and critics to the health services and professionals and to the structure of its community. Finally, it may be concluded that it is urgent seek a deeper comprehension of how these subjects see and experience the issues related to health/disease, the locus from which they express and the look they cast on this dyad, considering, in this understanding, the society in general, the academic peers and the health professionals who in the future undertake contact with this population called riparian.