"Eu sou um corpo, um ser, um corpo só, tem cor, tem corte" meu corpo preto é digno de acolhimento?: escrevivência de uma mulher preta sobre as implicações do racismo no acolhimento a pacientes em contexto hospitalar

Abstract

The hospital is a place where the medical order operates, the place where science needs to be produced, with the aim of reducing the disorders of subjectivity (MORETTO, 2001). This being, according to Goffman (1961), a totalitarian institution that aims to control docile bodies for study and treatment, aiming for a cure and when it is not achieved, there is the thought of failure, due to the place that science and medicine placed itself, a place that cannot allow room for error. From this, I try to think about how reception is carried out in this institution, considering that this is the gateway to health care, which requires a clinical and sensitive look at the patient in a state of illness. According to Trindade (2010), welcoming is an ethical stance, it does not require hours of work, it implies knowledge, in addition to listening to anxieties, seeking to resolve them. Racism is a power structure that dates back to the period of the Portuguese invasion of Brazil, making black bodies ineligible for care. Therefore, this work aims to discuss how racism is involved in the reception of patients in a hospital context based on the writing of a black woman, in order to problematize biomedical treatment and the social disciplining of the body, in addition to seeking understanding about what reception is and reflect on how psychology has contributed to welcoming black patients in the hospital environment, considering that many black people have their treatment neglected just because they are black. Narrative research and writing were used as methodology, in order to talk about my experience about racism in hospitals. Being me, the protagonist of my path, in my freedom to overcome the silence in communication and reveal all the crossings of these hospital experiences. Finally, it is possible to conclude that we need to be political subjects and emphasize that yes, a black body is worthy of acceptance, worthy of care, that this body has a history, has paths, sometimes painful, that need to be received with attention and care , like every person in a situation of illness.