A multiplicidade da Síndrome Congênita do Zika.

Abstract

At the end of 2015, the birth of children whose bodies had a functioning that did not correspond to the standards known and considered normal in Brazilian northeastern cities, caught the attention of the whole world. An unprecedented phenomenon that brings in its genesis health, social, political and economic issues, that have caused numerous unfoldings and mobilizing different actors. This work had as main objective to explore the ways of performance of what was decreed to call, in biomedical terms, Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). In this path, assumptions of the New Approaches to research and knowledge production in the Social Sciences of Health, from the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), based mainly on the works of the ethnographer Annemarie Mol. Using the concept of multiple realities, it started from the practices of families who participated in a project of intervention that aimed to expand the knowledge and skills of families of children diagnosed with (CZS). From practices articulated to fieldwork, were identified multiple versions of the disease and the interconnections between its performances in which the several Congenital Zika Syndromes have been produced and distributed in a variety of ways, in different contexts, resulting in different realities.