A tecnologia e a organização social das práticas de assistência à saúde da mulher

Resumo (EN)

Objective – The research was accomplished with professionals of the health department of the municipal district of Ribeirão Preto – SP. The objective was to verify and to analyze the social organization of the practices of assistance to woman’s health. Methods – The analysis of content was chosen, but it was also anchored in the social representations. Results – The words reflected the experiences in relation to the health system and assistance to the woman's health: the daily work is disciplined to assist and to intervene in the anatomy-physiologic body, the rigidity of the routines hinders the look towards women's complaints besides the biological determinism. The professionals have to learn to act in the paradigm faced by health. Here the obstetric nurse can contribute to change the assistance rendered to the woman’s health when assuming the attendance during normal prenatal exams, delivery and puerperium. Conclusions – It is believed that childbirth house makes it possible to understand childbirth not as a dysfunction to which medicines must be given or surgically repaired and treated under the optics repair in the biological body.