Art and Medicine - An Optional Mutual Relationship
Georgia Dunes da Costa MACHADO
Original title: Arte y Medicina - Una Relación de Mutualismo Facultativo
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Keywords: Art, History of Medicine, Interdisciplinarity, Medical Humanities, Transdisciplinarity.
As we evolve scientifically, we move away from the art involved in the intrinsic care of medicine. Many of our doctors are more blind, deaf, less tactile, devoid of empathy, as well as massacred by the high number of care they need to perform and the shameful conditions of work and service to which they are subjected and who are obliged to submit their patients. How can we not distance ourselves from models of behavior like that of William Osler (1849-1919)? This work presents different possibilities of using the arts as an example of a tool for reversing the proven loss of empathy of the medicine students. This through interventions in this process, as well as a reflection about the preconception of the hierarchy of knowledge and the feeling of unpreparedness of the faculty for the basic ability of mediation between art and medical-humanistic contents. It is possible, with the involvement of the emotion, as it happens with the musicians of an orchestra, to govern such mediation of an eye in the good final product: a new or old doctor that disturbs and surprises his patient, being a watershed in life of the individual who puts his full trust in him. In these terms, the use of the arts emerges as an important pedagogical resource, oriented to the rescue of the origins of Medicine, being the technologies and medical science incorporated for the benefit of the patient protagonist in a process of voluntary mutualism between medical art and medical science. This desire sums up in the phrases: “The curricular contents should teach not only the auscultation but the Listening; not only the palpation, but the Comfort to those who suffer; and not only to treat but to broaden the meaning of the act of caring”; “the worst man in science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is one who is never a man of science.”
Editorial: II UNESC Seminar of Medical Humanities
ANGOTTI NETO, Hélio
Original title: Editorial: II Seminário UNESC de Humanidades Médicas
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Keywords: Bioethics, Healthcare, Humanization, Medical Humanities, UNESC.
The third edition of Mirabilia Medicinae is dedicated to publish the works that were presented in the II UNESC Seminar of Medical Humanities (Colatina, Espírito Santo - Brazil). It also brings special articles about the humanization of healthcare and medical education, and a book review about Medicine and ideological threats.
Editorial: III Seminar UNESC of Medical Humanities / I Seminar UFES of Medical Humanities
Helio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Editorial: III Seminário UNESC de Humanidades Médicas / I Seminário UFES de Humanidades Médicas
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Keywords: Bioethics, Human Dignity, Medical Humanities.
This edition of Mirabilia Medicinae brings articles from the III Seminar UNESC of Medical Humanities / I Seminar UFES of Medical Humanities, and from the I Seminar UFES of Paleopathology.
Editorial: Medical Education
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Editorial: Educação Médica
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Keywords: Bioethics, Medical Education, Medical Humanities.
This edition of Mirabilia Medicinae brings articles about Medical Education and Bioethics, including several perspectives.
Free Hugs: Humanized actions for reception of candidates in the admission exam for Medicine – Experience report
Luciano Antônio RODRIGES, Victor Hugo de Castro e SILVA, Pâmela de Sousa DIAS, Diego de Oliveira BENTO, Isabela Marques HYGINO, Eduarda Paes Fontoura Alves dos SANTOS
Original title: Abraços Grátis: Ações humanizadas de acolhimento de candidatos em vestibular de medicina – Relato de Experiência
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Keywords: College Entrance, Free Hugs, Medical Humanities, Welcome.
The Free Hugs Company is a social movement that involve people who offer free hugs for strangers at public spaces. The "Free Hugs" was idealized in 2001 by an Australian called "Juan Mann" who had an objective to break the agitated routine of day-to-day with one unusual and uncommon act: to give hugs. Affording one way of permutation: sadness to happiness. Against the difficulties of getting into the university, like the value of the enrollment in college entrance, the distance of the family, and the tension and all the preparations that predates the arrival at the tests place, Free Hugs was developed by one group of academics of the course of medicine in UNESC during the college admission exam in 2015. This movement had the objective to establish a humanized host action, offering free hugs at the place of examination, demonstrating to the students who were going to do the test of college admission, recognizing their potential and efforts in that moment, and helping them to assuage anxiety.
Life Stories in Medicine
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Histórias de Vida na Medicina
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Keywords: History of Medicine, Medical Education, Medical Humanities.
This volume of Mirabilia / Medicinæ Journal brings three articles on Medical Humanities, History of Medicine and Medical Education. The first article is the academic report of the 5th UNESC Seminar on Medical Humanities - Life Stories in Medicine -, held on June 9 and 10, 2017 at Campus I of the University Center of Espírito Santo, in Colatina, Espírito Santo. The second article covers the history of Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915 AD). And the last article describes a health education initiative in the context of patient safety, an area of great importance and prominence in healthcare.
Medical Humanities: Art and Life
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Humanidades Médicas: Arte e Vida
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Keywords: Art, Bioethics, Medical Humanities, Organ Donation, René Favaloro.
This volume of Mirabilia / Medicinæ Journal brings three articles on Medical Humanities: Art and Life. The articles include an appreciation of art related to healthcare education, a biography of a renowned physician and an article on human life sacredness and the search for organs to donation. The three themes are intrinsically linked to the humanistic effort and offer different perspectives from a broad field of study.
The Symbolic and Moral Interpretation of the Hippocratic Oath
Hélio Angotti-Neto
Original title: A Interpretação Simbólica e Moral do Juramento Hipocrático
Published in Mirabilia Journal
Keywords: Aristotle, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath, History of Medicine, Medical Humanities.
The Hippocratic Oath remains as one of the most famous ethical texts in Medical Ethics and Bioethics. The objective of this essay is to clarify its poetic and symbolic interpretations, searching for the adequate comprehension of the Oath using a critical narrative approach with the Aristotelian Theory of the Four Discourses and the interpretation of its direct, indirect, specific and general moral prescriptions. The Oath is a poetic text, which can be used to cause a powerful impression upon the new physician, helping in his moral education and in his commitment with the moral community of Medicine. This analysis makes evident that the Hippocratic Oath still can be used for medical education and professional inspiration, rather than just be discarded as a historical curiosity. The conclusion is that the Oath can be approached more properly with specific literary and philosophical tools that can decode its meanings to better comprehension for the contemporary physician.
The Use of Eponyms in Medical Practice
Fleury Marinho da SILVA, Rodolfo Costa SYLVESTRE, José Guilherme Pinheiro PIRES
Original title: O Uso de Epônimos na Prática Médica
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Keywords: Eponyms, Medical Education, Medical Humanities, Terminology.
An eponym is a medical term derived from a person’s name, either real or fictitious. Several authors that stand against the use of eponyms in Biology or Medicine argue that the practice is anti-didactic because it is impossible to memorize over ten thousand existing eponyms, the same eponym may designate two different biomedical entities, or the eponyms can render tribute to infamous physicians. However, there are authors who support their use and describe that its practice is a medical art, reflecting the medical history over the years. For them, the use of eponyms is a correct attitude of recognition and a deserved tribute to those who contributed with their observation and research for developing the medical sciences.
V UNESC Seminar of Medical Humanities
Renylena Schmidt LOPES, Victor Hugo de Castro e SILVA, Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: V Seminário UNESC de Humanidades Médicas
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Keywords: Bioethics, Medical Humanities, Philosophy of Medicine.
On June 9 and 10, 2017, the V UNESC Seminar of Medical Humanities was held. It is a pioneering event created in 2013 to discuss topics including: Bioethics, Medical Philosophy, Medical History, Medical-Patient Relationship, Medical Ethics and Literature. This edition of the event was called "Life Stories in Medicine", and was divided into three blocks: (a) Humanization in Healthcare, addressing patients' life histories; (b) Professionalism and Ethics, addressing the life histories of healthcare professionals; and (c) Bioethics – The Abortion Debate, with different views on the lives of doctors, mothers and future generations.
