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Treatment adherence under the foucauldian perspective: knowledge/powers in tuberculosis control manuals in Brazil
Priscila Tadei Nakata Zago1, Rosana Maffacciolli1, Deise Lisboa Riquinho1
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Escola de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Objective:
Investigate which knowledge emerges in the Tuberculosis Control Manuals and how power relations are established for treatment adherence.
Method:
Documentary and qualitative research on five Manuals published between 2002 and 2019, available on the Ministry of Health's Website, based on Michel Foucault's theoretical and methodological framework.
Results:
1. Knowledge: emerges as human resource training; health surveillance actions; medicalization; and multifunctionality of nurses in addressing the social determinants of tuberculosis. 2. Power relations: occur through articulation between different subjects and establish disciplines on the body and the behavior of the person undergoing treatment.
Conclusions:
Certain knowledge/powers constitute the actions of treatment adherence to tuberculosis treatment and normalize the "correct/true" way of conducting disease control. Such behaviors refer to self-responsibility, autonomy and empowerment of the subject and do not consider the countless conditions of vulnerability existing in the history of people with tuberculosis.
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