As práticas de si e o cuidado de si no fazer do profissional de saúde : uma leitura a partir de Michel Foucault

Abstract

The present study refers to the practices' notion of the self-practices and self-care in the developed analysis by Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984), considered from its origins to today in classic Roman Greek thought, in relation to the theoretical and practical thinking about the professional health, as individuals who care for others in the health field. In this study, is used to the nurse's world the concept of self-practices and selfcare. This worked notion by Foucault is brought as a way to establish the subject in its subjectivity, in a relationship with himself, knowing himself, relating to himself, where self-care is presented as an alternative that allows the subject to constitute an ethical, moral and free subject. Among the objectives, this study seeks to explain the main ideas that are surrounding the concept of self-practices and self-care that emerge from Foucault´s analysis and score some points about the concept of subject brought by him and that is achieved in discussions of self-care. The research methodology for the preparation of this study is literature and uses the expository procedure as a fundamental theoretical contribution of Foucault's investigations for the identification and elaboration of the concept of self practices and self care, and relevant secondary sources, in an approach to the health field. This work is divided into four chapters. Following a introductory presentation, the second chapter is intended to explain the main ideas surrounding the notion of self-practices and selfcare. Thus, in a general outline, is presented on the Foucault contributions that announce the notion of self practices and self care in a resumed historical. To this, taking as a starting point The hermeneutics of the subject and highlight the moments of self care, considered as Socratic - Platonic, Hellenistic and Ascetic - Christian. In the third chapter, we present an approach to the subject conception brought by Foucault and the space of subjectivity in the process of itself subjectivity by itself. In this approach, it addresses the constitution of the subject itself in general and which attains the discussion of self-care. To the meeting that guy who takes care of the other, the professional nurse, reference is made to the database on health with referentials that involve the discursive construction of his know-how and the category "health care", material that is presented in the fourth chapter. Without running out of the topic in a final approach, this study reflects on an underlying question: - as we have seen directing our view to our lives, allowing us to apply the self-practices, including the exercise of think, in conducting a fulfilled life?