O objetivo do presente artigo foi clarificar os aspectos conceituais e práticos do cuidado espiritual na perspectiva do ministerio médico conforme o pensamento de Viktor Frankl. Destacam-se a ...concepçao antropológica e a dinâmica do espírito humano, em seus aspectos da autotranscendencia e do auto distanciamento. Para tanto, procedeu-se uma análise tanto dos principais conceitos abordados na antropologia médica de Viktor Frankl, quanto de suas casuísticas. Dessa forma, pódese identificar algumas necessidades espirituais do homo patiens, sobretudo o anseio para encontrar um sentido no sofrimento. Conclui-se apontando para a demanda de uma nova miss o na área da saúde: o cuidado espiritual, resultando em uma pastoral médica.
Near Human Svendsen, Mette N
2021, 20211112, 2022, 2021-11-12
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Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal
life. In the animal facility, fragile piglets substitute
for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive
care unit, ...extremely premature infants prompt questions about
whether they are too fragile to save or, if they survive, whether
they will face a life of severe disability. Drawing on ethnographic
fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental
science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen shows that
practices of substitution redirect the question of "what it means"
to be human to "what it takes" to be human. The near humanness of
preterm infants and research piglets becomes an avenue to unravel
how neonatal life is imagined, how societal belonging is evaluated,
and how the Danish welfare state is forged. This courageous
multi-sited and multi-species approach cracks open the complex
ethical field of valuating life and making different kinds of pigs
and different kinds of humans belong in Denmark.
Suffering and Sentimentexamines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap ...(Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. C. Jason Throop provides a vivid sense of Yapese life as he explores the local systems of knowledge, morality, and practice that pertain to experiencing and expressing pain. In so doing, Throop investigates the ways in which sensory experiences like pain can be given meaningful coherence in the context of an individual's culturally constituted existence. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of pain's characteristics are personalized by individual sufferers, the book sheds important new light on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action.
AIDS and accusation Farmer, Paul
2006., 20060503, 2006-05-03, 20060101
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Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning ...author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
InPornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, Zrinka Stahuljak explores the connections and fissures between the history of sexuality, nineteenth-century ...views of the Middle Ages, and the conceptualization of modern France. This cultural history uncovers the determinant role that the sexuality of the Middle Ages played in nineteenth-century French identity. Stahuljak's provocative study of sex, blood, race, and love in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical and historical literature demonstrates how French medicine's obsession with the medieval past helped to define European sexuality, race, public health policy, marriage, family, and the conceptualization of the Middle Ages. Stahuljak reveals the connections between the medieval military order of the Templars and the 1830 colonization of Algeria, between a fifteenth-century French marshal and the development of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's theory of sadism, between courtly love and the 1884 law on divorce. Although the developing discipline of medieval studies eventually rejected the influence of these medical philologists, the convergence of medievalism and medicine shaped modern capitalist French society and established a vision of the Middle Ages that survives today.
Traces affective and aesthetic dimensions of medical imaging
technologies
Introduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of
socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval,
ultrasound ...took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine.
Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information
and better prenatal and general health care. In Fixing the Image
Jenna Grant draws on years of ethnographic and archival research to
theorize the force and appeal of medical imaging in the urban
landscape of Phnom Penh. Set within long genealogies of technology
as tool of postcolonial modernity, and vision as central to skilled
diagnosis in medicine and Theravada Buddhism, ultrasound offers
stabilizing knowledge and elicits desire and pleasure, particularly
for pregnant women. Grant offers the concept of "fixing"-which
invokes repair, stabilization, and a dose of something to which one
is addicted-to illuminate how ultrasound is entangled with
practices of care and neglect across different domains. Fixing the
Image thus provides a method for studying technological practice in
terms of specific materialities and capacities of technologies-in
this case, image production and the permeability of the
body-illuminating how images are a material form of engagement
between patients, between patients and their doctors, and between
patients and their bodies.
In common with colonized Indigenous people worldwide, many Australian Aboriginal people experience inequitable health outcomes. While the commitment and advocacy of researchers and health ...practitioners has resulted in many notable improvements in policy and practice, systemic and structural impediments continue to restrain widespread gains in addressing Indigenous health injustices. We take Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD), a potent marker of extreme health inequity, as a case study, and critically examine RHD practitioners' perspectives regarding the factors that need to be addressed to improve RHD prevention and care. This study is an important explanatory component of a broader study to inform new clinical practices, and health system strategies and policies to reduce RHD. A decolonising, critical medical anthropology (CMA) analysis of findings from 22 RHD practitioner in-depth interviews conducted in May 2016 revealed both practitioners' perceptions of health system shortcomings and a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness to transform existing health system inequities, the negative impacts of which were subsequently confirmed in a separate study of RHD patients’ lived realities. We reveal how biomedical dominance, normalized deficit discourses and systemic racism influence the current policy and practice landscape, narrowing the intercultural space for productive dialogue and reinforcing the conditions that cause disease. To counter biomedical approaches that contribute to existing health inequities in health care, we recommend localized, strength-based, community-led research projects focused on actions that use critical decolonizing social science approaches to achieve system change. We demonstrate the importance of integrating biological and social sciences approaches in research, education/training, and practice to: 1) be guided by Indigenous strengths, knowledges and worldview, and 2) adopt a critical reflexive stance to examine systems, structures and practices. Such an approach facilitates productive cross-cultural dialogue and social transformation; providing direction and hope to practitioners, enhancing their knowledge, skills and capacity and improving Aboriginal health outcomes.
•Biomedical approaches result in normalization of deficit discourses and racism.•Biomedicine limits practitioners' critical and reflective skills and sense of agency to address inequities.•Cultural safety, including reflexivity regarding power and privilege is needed.•Changes in systems and practice requires a combination of Indigenous knowledges, biomedical and social science approaches
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