Doação de órgãos: um estudo sobre produção de sentidos

Abstract

This job has the objective to investigate the Representações Sociais (Social Leaders) formed by relative´s dead people donors that offer their organs and tissue to transplant. A research was done by using as an instrument: the half interview. Nine relatives, an alive donor and an organ receptor were interviewed. Two ways appeared in the study: the one related to the idea of life and the other one related to the idea of death. In the idea of life, the cure ideas, solidarity, continuity and altruism are present. In the second idea, there is mainly the body fragmentation. This way, we can be aware that if the people that are still alive could tell their relatives freely about their wish to be donor, it would be easier for their relatives to decide to donate organs in a difficult moment in life. All the interviewed people showed that this fact was determinative at the decision moment of donating organs and tissue, making that decision less stressful. Thinking over the organ donation in every day life will permit that this theme leave the anonymity and go into as well the social support system as health and hospital system to make the relatives´s late decision easier.