The present work is the result of the consultancy in psychology related to a work accomplished with workers in a unit of a surgical ward at a General Hospital in the city of Porto Alegre. The work intended to discuss the constitutive relation between work and subjectivity in the context of the surgical nursing, looking for the outline of peculiar manners of doing, feeling, suffering and making subjective. Moreover, the article describes and problemizes the organization of the work and the desirable relationships among the workers and the hospital. Finally, it discusses contemporary issues which permeate the surgical activity, such as, robotization, biotechnology, genetic engineering, the questioning of "me" and the reconstruction of the body notion.
subjectivity; surgical workers; cyborgs