Pró Zinha: uma prosa sobre o encontro da rezadeira, a aluna de medicina e uma professora universitária

Abstract

Introduction: This is a qualitative exploratory study whose objective is to understand and share, in a critical and sensitive way, the craft and traditional knowledge of a mourner, based on the perception of the components of this research. The guiding thread of the research emerges from the experience lived by the subjects, and by the author, who at the time was a substitute professor in the medical course internship at UFRB, in the disciplines of Family and Community Health and Collective Health, in the city of Santo Antônio de Jesus-BA, in 2019. Methodology: The data collection was carried out through scientific productions indexed in the electronic databases SCIELO, LILACS and MEDLINE, which were in Portuguese, available in full and free of charge. Discussion: It discusses the denial of the incorporation of traditional Afro-indigenous medicines that can be perceived in the lack of implementation of prayers as an Integrative Practice in the SUS, which follow the course of the denial of knowledge by the biomedical and hegemonic health system. Results: The challenges encountered for the elaboration of an audiovisual product in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic are pointed out, as a tool to communicate the reported experience, and the lack of academic production on the subject, in addition to the perception of several actors about the incorporation of traditional knowledge of prayers in medical training and in the SUS. It is hoped that the study will contribute to the implementation of teaching policies aimed at transforming mentalities, practices and social relationships in the area of health and maintaining the memory of traditional knowledge in health.