IARA SOUZA
Federal University of Bahia, Sociologia, Faculty Member
Resumo: Neste trabalho discutimos diferentes modos de existir-junto ou, mais especificamente, como certos seres se juntam em trajetorias de enredamento. A ideia, proposta por Souriau, de que as existencias sao nao so plurais como tambem... more
Resumo: Neste trabalho discutimos diferentes modos de existir-junto ou, mais especificamente, como certos seres se juntam em trajetorias de enredamento. A ideia, proposta por Souriau, de que as existencias sao nao so plurais como tambem sempre capazes de tornar-se outras, de ganhar (ou perder) intensidade, constitui o ponto de partida de nossa reflexao. As formas de existir-junto de que falaremos aqui provem de nossos diferentes campos de pesquisa (relacoes entre humanos e animais outros que humanos em um laboratorio de pesquisa; relacoes entre seres mais que humanos e seus filhos humanos nas religioes afro-brasileiras). Interessa-nos refletir sobre os trajetos e tecnicas atraves dos quais essas formas brotam e se fortalecem nesses campos.
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O presente texto tem por objetivo identificar os pressupostos subjacentes na ideia de compreensão para as teorias sociais fundamentadas pelos pressupostos hermenêutico-fenomenológicos. Inicialmente, procura caracterizar criticamente o... more
O presente texto tem por objetivo identificar os pressupostos subjacentes na ideia de compreensão para as teorias sociais fundamentadas pelos pressupostos hermenêutico-fenomenológicos. Inicialmente, procura caracterizar criticamente o significado de subjetividade e objetividade herdado do Iluminismo e do Romantismo, argumentando que ambas presumem as mesmas concepções de tradição, embora com sinais invertidos. Em seguida, inspirando-se em Gadamer e Heidegger, o texto discute a proposta da hermenêutica-fenomenológica contemporânea para concluir que compreensão tem, em "si mesma", a estrutura de uma experiência. Assim, compreender significa, em última instância, empreender um diálogo com o "outro", através de uma mediação histórica - e, portanto, mutável - presente no encontro entre horizontes distintos.
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The article analyzes two types of practice involved in medical training case presentations and the annotation of consultations in medical records that play a fundamental role in divesting patients of their personal qualities and... more
The article analyzes two types of practice involved in medical training case presentations and the annotation of consultations in medical records that play a fundamental role in divesting patients of their personal qualities and reconstituting them as an objective body, a set of organs, the site of a lesion and the object of intervention. The ethnographic material presented here is the result of observing case presentations made by students to their tutors in a cardiology outpatient clinic at the University Hospital of UFBA. The article highlights the role of scientific and technological conceptions in this process. It also shows that both the case presentations to tutors (a descriptive and performative type of speech) and the written notes in medical records (a training practice that both shapes speech and reflects it, thereby authorizing the student) are procedures for objectifying the patient that depend on interpretation, although this takes place in surreptitious form.
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Based on news reports from Brazilian papers, the article examines the case of scientific fraud involving cloned embryos, committed by South Korean scientist Hwang. The media generally focus on the intellectual process of science, its... more
Based on news reports from Brazilian papers, the article examines the case of scientific fraud involving cloned embryos, committed by South Korean scientist Hwang. The media generally focus on the intellectual process of science, its discoveries, and the new possibilities it promises. In this case, however, science is shown the other way around, revealing a web that interweaves elements of a radically disparate nature, like the Korean government, researchers, tools, research funds, human eggs and funguses, scientific journals, among others. These ties are what make up science in practice, yet they only become visible in the media when there is tension between them and, in this case, when something illicit happens.
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Using a semiotic and hermeneutical approach, the present paper discusses various theoretical elements in the analysis of popular views of schistosomiasis. Based on field work conducted in the State of Bahia, the authors identify two main... more
Using a semiotic and hermeneutical approach, the present paper discusses various theoretical elements in the analysis of popular views of schistosomiasis. Based on field work conducted in the State of Bahia, the authors identify two main processes in the construction of meaning related to schistosomiasis and show that depending on the social context of experience the disease may have a primary or secondary meaning for the populations affected by it. The first level of meaning refers to bodily experiences and is shared intersubjectively, whereas the second type is built on the discourse of health professionals. In the latter case, the popular view of the illness is directly linked to discourses and actions previously established by health programs designed for the control of the disease.
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This article inquires as to the meaning of nervoso (nerves) among poor, working-class women from Salvador, Brazil. Our aim is to understand nerves as an experience that emerges from the background of a life trajectory and that, in many... more
This article inquires as to the meaning of nervoso (nerves) among poor, working-class women from Salvador, Brazil. Our aim is to understand nerves as an experience that emerges from the background of a life trajectory and that, in many significant ways, disrupts the taken-for-granted character of that trajectory. From a phenomenological-hermeneutical tradition, we explore the links between experience, embodiment and temporality and then discuss the relevance of this approach for the understanding of women’s nervoso. In order to do so we present the life histories of three middle-aged women who have been afflicted with nerves. The accounts describe significant ways in which culturally inherited possibilities - grounded in a lived context of class and gender - are recovered and come to pre-figure a certain future. As we argue throughout the article, it is only when we situate the experience of nervoso within the temporal frame of life that we can truly understand it - that is, grasp it as part of a movement that involves both recovery and creation of meaning.