Author, as appears in the article.: Ventura-Garcia L
Department: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social
URV's Author/s: Ventura Garcia, Laia
Keywords: Trypanosoma-cruzi infection Risk Public health Medical practice Chagas disease Biomedicine uncertainty tice public health medical prac- health disease chagas disease biomedicine
Abstract: Drawing on observation-based ethnography, interviews of health personnel and document review, this article describes and examines how, in clinical handling of Chagas disease, infection is treated as latent risk. It suggests that how this risk is managed has enabled a clinical practice to be conducted among people classified as at the indeterminate stage, by adding a dimension of possibility (Is it going to happen?) and potentiality (When and where?). This allows measures to be taken, including administration of medication or permanent monitoring. The reification of latent risk as a phenomenon that is manageable through a process of medicalisation engages, in turn, with other conceptions and specific experiences of risk among the affected groups. Framing the clinical practices deployed to address this risk as objects of study is a first step towards being able to describe and include them concretely in health system organisation.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Sociologia i política Sociología Serviço social Saúde coletiva Química Public, environmental & occupational health Public health, environmental and occupational health Psicología Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Odontología Nutrição Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina veterinaria Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Linguística e literatura Letras / linguística Interdisciplinar Historia Health policy Geografía Geociências General medicine Filosofia/teologia:subcomissão teologia Filosofia/teologia:subcomissão filosofia Filosofía Farmacia Ensino Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Direito Ciencias sociales Ciências sociais aplicadas i Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência política e relações internacionais Ciência de alimentos Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Arquitetura, urbanismo e design Arquitetura e urbanismo Antropologia / arqueologia Administração, ciências contábeis e turismo Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: laia.ventura@urv.cat
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Ciencia & Saude Coletiva. 27 (3): 871-879
APA: Ventura-Garcia L (2022). “You will ask me: which am I?”: the clinical practice of Chagas as a latent risk. Ciencia & Saude Coletiva, 27(3), 871-879. DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232022273.33482020
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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