O que pode um geocorpo? saúde, doença e morte atravessados nas linhas vitais de pacientes terminais.

Abstract

The research came from the interest to comprehend how terminal patients get strength to live even they have many difficulties and limitations caused by the disease and the side effects of radical treatment. Considering a methodology that seems like a quicksand which was formed during the work, the research accompanied two terminal ill patients and their families and with the story of two people who cared for their parents, also diagnosed as terminal ill patients, until death. During the procedures, there were interviews, family diaries, observation during visits to patients in their homes and in their various visits to hospitals for medical treatment. Immersion and production of thought gave the confluences and connections between the experiences of terminal ill patients, accumulated during encounters with these patients and their families, and reading carefully the theories of Deleuze, Guattari, Niatzsche and other authors. The following questions helped to give some direction for the research: how terminal ill patients live their body in the intermezzo life and death? What events are raised between discredit everything and believe in possible times of health, in other words, what emerges between impotence and the power of the body? Which subjectivities / individualities nebulae are created or invented in this intermezzo between life and death on the body surface? How these bodies cause / problematize or impact our traditional notions of body healthy and diseased body? And what matters most for these patients when they experience illness of your body? Such questions were unfolded in the objectives of detecting the ways in which terminal ill patients experience possible times of slow speeds and / or frenetic health to their bodies, even in the disease state in which they find themselves; to discuss the subjectivity processes which are recorded on the bodies of these patients crossed by the states of health, illness, life and proximity to the death and to debate the healthy body reinvention modes created by these patients with traditional concepts of body , health and disease arising mainly from biomedicine. The main results experimentation of thought led to the concept of geocorpo and others that compose it as healthy as possible, surrounded by accompanied loneliness, miserable loneliness and appeased body supporting the thesis that terminal ill patients invent and reinvent their subjectivities and run a cloudy movement between life and death, health and disease, forcing these patients to rethinking about other body understanding modes of life and health. The body in that intermezzo fosters a movement of folds and new folds run by experiences related to moments of slow speeds and / or frantic health, (even in the disease state in which they are, by eliminating or mental exclusion of affected organs) and tend to provide a temporary health for its own existence. A geocorpo that experiences to transmute or view and tell it about ways of existence. It makes possible to communicate with the identical dismantlement to bend the "outramento" (another itself, another from another). The thesis promotes other prospects beyond human body in its organic model, which can prove to be a contribution to science education and a way to live besides terminal patients.