O TRABALHO DO/A ASSISTENTE SOCIAL NA SAÚDE PÚBLICA EM GOIÂNIA E O PROJETO ÉTICO-POLÍTICO PROFISSIONAL.

Abstract

This master‟s dissertation examines the work of the social worker within the context of the public health system in the city of Goiânia, in light of the social service ethicalpolitical project. The study aims to analyze the professional practice of social workers at the urgency and emergency basic health care units in Goiânia, and its relationship to the Ethical-Political Project of Social Work in Brazil. It seeks to identify the mediations that take place in the areas of labor, health and social work. The capitalist mode of production underpins the analysis of the labor category, manifesting itself as estranged labor in the social form of wage disbursement. The research reveals the particularities of the professional practice within the public health scope, demonstrating that individual demands are not yet taken as collective ones. The instant, onetime and piecemeal actions, devoid of any planning, research and critical analyses, contribute to detach the practice from the courses of the social service ethical and political project.