A voz do Conselho federal de Medicina: da defesa da ética à ação corporativa

Abstract

This study discusses how lhe Conselho Federal de Medicina constructs íts discourse on medicine and medical doctors, assuming that this discourse is organized around a liegemonic project brought by the CFM to lhe medical corporation. Concepts of the sociology of professions were used in order to reach this goal, especially Eliot Freidson's assumptions on lhe values of lhe medical profession. 1be methodological too! adopted was lhe content analysis method proposed by Laurence Bardin. Based on this methodology, the section entitled "CFM" of the Jornal Medicina ofthe Conselho Federal de Medicina was analyz.ed in its 1997 issues. The study concluded that the ideal medical doctor profile proposed by the CFM is one of o professional wilh multiple attributions -social, politicai ethical, scíentific and corporatíve. The major problema doctors have to face, accordíng to CFM's discourse, would be: market oriented health services, lhe organization of tbe medical corporation as a heterogeneous group and lhe íncreasingly precarious world of labor. CFM's discoursc highlights thc traditional attributcs and values of the medical profession, emphaaizing the professional autonomy. It wa.s also pointed out that lhe CFM, under the banner of the elhical practice of medicine, builds up a strategy for defense of the medical corporation, similar to union type class organizations.