Itinerários terapêuticos e novas tecnologias reprodutivas: estudo sobre acesso de mulheres na busca por filhos no hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley

Abstract

This paper discusses about the Therapeutic Itineraries and New Reproductive Technologies conceptive . In this sense, we intend to understand how low-income couples are having access to technical and medical procedures that allow couples somehow unable to have their children. This work aims to understand the therapeutic itineraries that are traversed by couples wishing to have children , that is , the paths taken by women in pursuit of biomedicine to overcome the difficulties in having children . The research was conducted at University Hospital Lauro Wanderley ( HULW ) in João Pessoa ( PB ) through semi-structured interviews applied to women who are seeking family planning services because they can not get pregnant . Research has shown us some interesting points , such as : most women have several difficulties to access the services of HULW . The analysis of therapeutic itineraries of these women revealed that the search for a child is part of the “social pressure " to have children and , further , that the desire for children is a social desire, which was socially constructed , and that women will submit to medicalization to account for the realization of this desire . Or, some of these women said it was not only their dreams , but their husband's dream. It is noteworthy that although the State says that there is a family planning we realized that there is a plan , but that this planning is only focused on the female's body and health, considering that such plan does not include man 's human boby and health .