Redes do cuidado : etnografia de aparatos de gestão intersetorial para usuários de drogas
Resumo
This research presents an ethnography of care’s network. I describe the mode of
operation of an intersectoral management for drug users, as from a fieldwork in public
health equipment in São Bernardo do Campo (SP). The construction of networks for
reception and support care (acolhimento e cuidado), appointment (encaminhamento)
and treatment for this targeted public is the empirical question that guides this research.
The ambiguous figure of drug user (both patient and defaulter) resonates in the public
policies for this population. For this reason, the networks both care as well as enclose
these subjects at the same time. The ethnography of network in the health sector
explores the challenges and dilemmas that these intersectoral management apparatus
evoke. I present the issues that revolve around the network’s organizational model that
is formulated by standardization of policies and the universalization of principles, but in
practical terms they are invented according to the occasions. I also raised the dilemmas
of how workers throw themselves on the challenge of tying partnerships, doing
maintenance, seeing the size of the network, tracking the movement of people,
information and documents, and planning their growth in the territories. Such
developments matches the dilemmas of an assistance project that aims to take care of
people in freedom, accomplishing the democratic and humanistic precepts, but intends
to monitor the movements and pursue many traces.