Social representations of women in prison facing the diagnosis of syphilis
Objective: To know the social representations of women in deprivation of liberty in the face of the diagnosis of syphilis. Method: the study was carried out at the Santa Luzia Female Prison, located in Maceió, Alagoas, from July to December 2017. For data collection, the semi-structured interview technique, guided by an interview form, was applied. The discussion of the results obtained was built from the thematic categorization by the technique of content analysis in interrelation with the Theory of Social Representations.