The Death in Life of Severina: a cartography of care for people (with disabilities)

Abstract

This article analyzes the access to health care that produces vulnerability, as well as the resistance strategies of users. The study, resulting from qualitative research with a cartographic approach, uses the concept-tool “guide-user” to analyze the trajectory of a 48-year-old woman, with visual impairment, accompanied in research at a specialized center in rehabilitation in the municipality of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Between October 2020 and April 2021, 12 virtual meetings were held with the user and two interviews with service professionals, recorded in field diaries. The analysis generated the following interpretation axes: Several Deaths in Life, Severina; The fabrication of a Severina body: marks of a prescriptive health of living; and Severina insists on life, in her production of living networks of care. It was evidenced that the organization of health care directed at certain groups of people leads to the production of vulnerabilities and promotes death (or even many deaths) during life. At the same time, possibilities for the construction of other flows were identified, in which it would be possible to constitute, for themselves, means of breaking with what is structured for our routes, allowing to produce holes in the walls.