Name: Marcela Cristina Elias Villela
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 09/04/2020
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Elaine de Azevedo | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Elaine de Azevedo | Advisor * |
| Marcelo Fetz de Almeida | Internal Examiner * |
| Marle dos Santos Alvarenga | External Examiner * |
| Pablo Ornelas Rosa | External Alternate * |
| Patrícia Pereira Pavesi | Internal Alternate * |
Summary: ABSTRACT
The science of Nutrition is located under the biologicist medical paradigm of the health area that understands pathology as the basis for action from diagnosis, intervention and even prescription. It bases its clinical practice on Nutritionism, on rules and recommendations from academic studies and standardized measurement strategies that classify and homogenize social groups, which ends up exercising a biopower format on them. That is, the control of knowledge and the lifestyles of individuals, so that they become more productive, attending to neoliberal interests with implications of power that involve gender dimensions and utopian search for longevity and body perfection/performance. This research sought to reflect and problematize this
hegemonic approach to Nutrition, investigating discourses, practices and strategies promoted by nutritionists working in clinical practice and teaching in higher education. This is an exploratory case study based on interviews with semi-structured scripts, in order to illustrate the central issue of the work on the relationship between self-control and self-care in the dynamics of the relationship between the nutritionist and his actors - the patient and student. The study interviewed six professionals from different institutions and from several municipalities in Espírito Santo. The results were worked out from the speech analysis. The sample did not intend to provide answers, solutions or promote generalizations, but was intended to help reflect on concepts,
aproaches and practices that can be explored so that professionals can structure themselves based on self-care. It was noticed that the clinical practice of nutrition is a reflection of the historical, educational and sociocultural structure in which the professionals are inserted, even though some of them manage to promote changes in the way they act. The challenges are huge, however, there are many possibilities for a humanized, empathic practice that is effective from the interrelation of the actors. Keywords: Self control; Self care; Sociology of health; Food; Nutrition
