Reflections on adult male patient care within a family sphere: a gender perspective
Aim: to reflect on the care to adult family man by the light of relational gender perspective. Method: theoretical and reflective study. Results: the naturalization of the image of the men who does not value the health care, contributes to the reproduction of a culture that brings harmful consequenc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsm.br/reufsm/article/view/19344 |
| Summary: | Aim: to reflect on the care to adult family man by the light of relational gender perspective. Method: theoretical and reflective study. Results: the naturalization of the image of the men who does not value the health care, contributes to the reproduction of a culture that brings harmful consequences even for the family. Moreover, estrangement may happen when there is a situation of illness and health care dependency within the family, just because of the idea of invulnerability. As a result, there have been impacts of different orders on the family. Final Thoughts: although this occurs in all situations in which the family faces disease in one of its members, it should be noted that under the gender perspective, there are peculiarities in relation to the care and its reverberations in the family when the sick person is an adult male, which awakens the need to think about such relationships and the consequent impacts |
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| ISSN: | 2179-7692 2179-7692 |