Por dentro da rede: Circuito de trocas e reciprocidades na promoção de saúde no Baixo Amazonas

Abstract

Nursing homes in the Lower Amazon are places created by the Project Evangelization by the Diocese of Santarém for the last twenty years with the aim of bringing health to populations with difficult access to the National Healthcare System (SUS). In those houses, the medical services are known to be "closer" or even more humane because people should feel like at their homes. In many Nursing homes can be found such as homemade products made through the use of herbal medicine, such as smelling bath, potions, massages, acupuncture, Reike, Bioenergetics, etc. Initially nursing homes operated with the direct assistance of the pastoral care and currently gain more autonomy from the diocese through a constantly expanding network that integrates. The health network is the thread which connects the "sister’s houses” with other agents. The network is not a direct product of the Diocese project, but was the product of the interaction of volunteers working in different houses. Thus, a strong link rises and strengthens networking among the nursing homes, or "living pharmacies". The clusters agents for the network relationships are seen as potential trading partners, which may be accomplished in many ways. Exchanges in this way link different actors by reciprocity, which ends up being one of the central elements to the dynamics of the network. In addition to, the path followed is to return magnification ratios and obtaining knowledge, techniques, materials and by funding, which help in maintaining many head offices. The headquarters of these houses are located almost everywhere in the western state of Para where the alternative health network is present. In this work are exposed considerations on field research conducted since 2013 with the living pharmacies located in some municipalities of Para West. The research is being carried out through participative observation, interview and use of image media. Considerations are made by the analysis of some main points of the health system, such as the exchange and reciprocity. The goal is to expose to the circulation of knowledge, techniques and actors in the network becomes key to understand the dynamic update health practices and expansion of relations and rereading of "tradition" in the manufacturing scenario medicinal products and configuration treatments. One notes also, that this notion of "tradition" has reconfigured, as well as recipes and techniques used in homes in their healing ways. These circulation elements and sharing are connection points between houses, different actors and institutions, which are related and extend the health network, through different modes of aggregation and exchange.