"Early Treatment", Anti-Vaccination, and Denialism : who are the Doctors for Life in the COVID-19 pandemic context in Brazil?

The article aims to identify who the "Doctors for Life" are, their academic and professional information, which assumptions have been mobilized for the defense of "early treatment" and the denial of vaccines for COVID-19, and the representativeness of their discourses in the medical practice context in Brazil. The analysis is based on a list of 276 doctors' names, cataloged from their website, and on academic and professional information obtained through research on the Federal Medical Conseil website and the Scientific and Technological Development Nacional Council platform. The content analysis points to the centrality of the medical specialties of homeopathy and acupuncture in the population of Doctors for Life when compared to the set of specialist doctors in Brazil. The significant accession of homeopaths and acupuncturists to the Doctors for Life movement can clarify the understanding of specific medical rationalities, allowing us to distinguish which categories and ideas about the health-disease process are in dispute. It is concluded that, more than describing the problem, it is needed to establish its correlations with a group of events, practices, political decisions, economic linkages, shared beliefs, and a chain of processes that configure its undeniably social characteristics.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Ciencia & saude coletiva - 27(2022), 11 vom: 15. Nov., Seite 4213

Sprache:

Portugiesisch

Weiterer Titel:

“Tratamento precoce”, antivacinação e negacionismo: quem são os Médicos pela Vida no contexto da pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil?

Beteiligte Personen:

Ferrari, Isaura Wayhs [VerfasserIn]
Grisotti, Márcia [VerfasserIn]
Amorim, Lucas de Carvalho de [VerfasserIn]
Rodrigues, Larissa Zancan [VerfasserIn]
Ribas, Marcella Trindade [VerfasserIn]
Silva, Cristiane Uflacker da [VerfasserIn]

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COVID-19 Vaccines
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Date Completed 21.10.2022

Date Revised 21.10.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1590/1413-812320222711.09282022

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM347745873