出版社：Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
摘要：Recent research in the Social Sciences andColective Health points to different formsin contemporary attitudes toward the actof giving birth. During a six-month periodin 2013, we carried out an ethnographicstudy of anthroposophical healing inDemétria, a neighborhood in the city ofBotucatu in Sao Paulo State, Brazil. In thispaper we seek to draw reflections aboutthe guidelines set out in Anthroposophy’sromantic medicine as it applies to gestationand birth in a rural anthroposophicalcommunity and to the relationshipsestablished with biomedicine and withhealth services. Contact with mothers andpregnant women showed there to be anemotional grammar through which thesewomen seek out physical purification andcontrol of their bodies, as well as a religioussilence when it comes to facing the painsof giving birth, as a form of showingcourage. When they seek to access healthservices, expectations about the birth arefound to be distant from the practices andconceptions of conventional medicine.
