The decision making process in tubal sterilization

Abstract

The objective of this qualitative investigation was to verify how the team makes decisions about tubal sterilization. We used Marxist dialectics and social representation as our references. We held interviews and observed some activities of agents from the health team. The information was submitted to discourse analysis. We found that in the decision making process there is a tendency for the team to operate more horizontally, because of the importance of the ethical dimension of sterilization of women, which tends to dislocate knowledge from the field of biomedical and scientific to the field of social and human sciences.