The course on Narrative Medicine held in Porto from January 13th to 18th brought together a set of knowledge meant to deal with contemporary health: bioethics, the processes of communication and interaction with patients, writing, more integrated and participative ways of recording patient history that contain not only the clinical history, but also the aspects of the relationships and reflections…
RESEARCH: FOR WHAT AND WHY?
Research: For what and why? About the knowledge generation What motivates the organization to do research? What is the question that guides the need to develop knowledge? It is a question that leads outwards (to show the results of the activity to the world) or inwards (further developing the organization). How does the organization relate to the theme of Knowledge…
A PIECE OF LIFE
A piece of life A piece of my life is online. It’s called a thesis. I went to look at the meaning of this word to better understand how I would create and write this work. I found defining words, such as: affirmation, proposition, work to be defended. The thesis Ethics of the Encounter, defended in December 2018, is first…
THE ETHICS OF JOY
IN THE HOSPITAL CONTEXT
My book “Good Blends” was launched in 2003 and is now out of print reissued by Editora MMD by the name of “Ethics of Joy in the hospital context”. Since 2003, many possibilities opened up the world of book publishing : the on-demand publishing and eBook decreased production costs, reverting to the reader a lower cover price and greater agility…
CHANNEL LAUNCH
How can we create a narrative opportunity for multiple languages to discuss health processes? In the terrain where patients walk in hospitals, their rooms full of equipment and technology that witness these silent experiences. In general, what is narrated by the patient will have a place of scientific record that will be rearticulated within an organized medical expression plan.