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0196/2023 - Carregando vidas e mortes: o cotidiano de trabalho de maqueiros hospitalares no contexto da Covid-19.

Author:

• Luísa Maiola Araujo - Araujo, L.M - <luisamaiola@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1573-3402

Co-author(s):

• Adriana Kelly Santos - Santos, A.K - <akellybj@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6606-0020


Abstract:

This article aims to analyze the daily work of stretcher bearers in a Federal Teaching and Research Hospital in the context of Covid-19, exploring the subjective aspects related to working in constant contact with death and the invisibility to which these workers are subjected. The proposed discussion stemsa more comprehensive qualitative investigation. The main methodological resource of the empirical research was the direct observation in the daily work that allowed to capture nuances of the work in a dialectical analysis with the workers. The data obtained were analyzedthe perspective of Social Psychology of Work. Transience and invisibility were identified as important categories of analysis of this daily work, the process of becoming a stretcher-bearer was marked by aspects of precariousness of work and vulnerability of the worker. Working in contact with death was also understood as a factor of invisibility, the creation of bonds and humor appeared as a collective strategy to face the harshness of work. It is concluded the importance of looking at the subjective aspects of the work carried out by stretcher bearers, as well as the expansion of research on the subject.

Keywords:

Occupational Health; Psychology, Social, Health Personnel, COVID-19.

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Araujo, L.M, Santos, A.K. Carregando vidas e mortes: o cotidiano de trabalho de maqueiros hospitalares no contexto da Covid-19.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2023/Jul). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/carregando-vidas-e-mortes-o-cotidiano-de-trabalho-de-maqueiros-hospitalares-no-contexto-da-covid19/18822?id=18822



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