Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:13:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006-Simone Gadelha Cavalcante.pdf: 707753 bytes, checksum: f0b33be91024838f1581484b42ae1662 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-29 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / This dissertation was based on a case study about popular faith healing practices by rezadeiras in the municipality of Maranguape which were linked to the health public system in that municipality with the implementation of the Program "Soro Ra?zes e Rezas" for the reduction of infant mortality. Since 1998, this program has been implemented in this municipality located in the metropolitan region of Fortaleza, Cear? in the Northeast of Brazil. By analyzing the possibility of exchanging experiences and a dialogue between rezadeiras and institutional medicine, especially with the health professionals of the Family Health Program (PSF) who work in this municipality, a study was made about what health representations are being delineated from this contact between rezadeiras and health professionals involved in the program. We tried to investigate whether and how this "encounter" between the two medicine has produced a new frontier and new values that resulted in a re-configuration of the representations and health practices. In this manner, the object of this study is to contribute towards a reflection about the new relationships established between rezadeiras and physicians as well as the effects on the community assisted by the Program. This study also tries to raise the implications of this insertion process of rezadeiras for the public system which is disseminated as a modern model of public policy in health. / Esta disserta??o teve como fundamento o estudo de caso sobre as pr?ticas populares de cura das rezadeiras de Maranguape que foram vinculadas ao sistema p?blico de sa?de do munic?pio, com a implanta??o do Programa Soro, Ra?zes e Rezas para a diminui??o da mortalidade infantil. Este Programa foi implementado neste munic?pio, localizado na zona metropolitana de Fortaleza-Cear?, no nordeste do Brasil desde 1998. Analisando-se a possibilidade de troca de experi?ncias e de di?logo entre as rezadeiras com a medicina institucional, em especial com as equipes do Programa de Sa?de da Fam?lia PSF, que atuam neste munic?pio, estudou-se quais as representa??es em sa?de que est?o sendo delineadas a partir desse contato entre as rezadeiras e os profissionais de sa?de envolvidos no Programa. Buscou-se verificar se e de que modo este encontro entre as medicinas tem produzido uma nova fronteira e novos valores, resultando numa reconfigura??o das representa??es e pr?ticas em sa?de. Objetiva-se desse modo com este estudo, contribuir com uma reflex?o sobre as novas rela??es que se estabelecem entre as rezadeiras e os profissionais m?dicos e os efeitos na comunidade assistida pelo Programa. Bem como tamb?m, prop?e-se colocar em cena as implica??es desse processo de inser??o das rezadeiras ao sistema p?blico divulgado como um modelo moderno de pol?tica p?blica em sa?de.