Abstract

MELO, Marilene Barros de  and  BRANT, Luiz Carlos. Medical act: loss of authority, power and resistance. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2005, vol.25, n.1, pp.14-29. ISSN 1414-9893.

Facing the Bill nº 25/02, from the Brazilian Senate, which had its genesis in the Federal Council of Medicine’s Resolution nº 1627/01 and the objective of conditioning the access to health services to a previous authorization of the doctor, the authors tried to know the perceptions about the medical activity. In this sense, the same authors have developed a qualitative study in the field of the worker’s health, having interviewed 8 doctors and 13 workers. The content analysis technique has demonstrated that the doctor-patient relation has been constituted by the following categories: submission, conflict and resistance. This type of relation reinforces the conception of the individual as a mere bearer of a biological body and the “medical act” as a conjunction of cultural, corporative and marketing forces. Thus, this Bill seems to constitute a strategy to confront the current crisis of the medical hegemony, representing a regression to mechanist and mono-causality models, and demonstrating unfamiliarity with the important conquests on Collective Health.

Keywords : Interdisciplinarity; Medicine; Collective Health; Doctor-patient relation.

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