Motherhood in the Policy of Humanized Health Care for Premature and/or Underweight Babies – Kangaroo Program

Authors

  • Renata Meira Véras Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
  • Martha Azucena Traverso-Yépez Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2010000100004

Abstract

The article aims to develop a reflection about the models of motherhood and family implicit in the official document edited by the Ministry of Health about the Kangaroo Program. It also explores the way the Program is developed at a Maternity Hospital in the North-Eastern part of the country, as it is presented as humanized health care for premature and/or underweight babies. The methodological perspective adopted is the foucauldian discourse analysis which focuses on the role of language in the configuration of the social and psychological life of the social actors involved. The analysis shows that there exists a comprehensive, prescriptive, and authoritarian discourse, positioning women as passive objects of intervention, through the idealization of a healthy motherhood and a typical nuclear middle class family.

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Published

2010-01-01

How to Cite

Véras, R. M., & Traverso-Yépez, M. A. (2010). Motherhood in the Policy of Humanized Health Care for Premature and/or Underweight Babies – Kangaroo Program. Revista Estudos Feministas, 18(1), 61. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2010000100004

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2010)

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Articles

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