The article analyzes in Wolf Lepenies’ perspective the sociology of medicine three dimensions - historical, social and cognitive in the construction of their identity. It is understood that the construction of an identity does not end with the firs...
The aging population and the lack of caregivers result in a growing demand for the institutionalization and the reflections that permeates aging is finitude. Living with death is part of the daily work of health professionals, causing them emotional ...
This article deals with the vision of Palliative Care in the direction of a “good death” for adults and children. Based on the examination of textbooks, manuals and articles, as well as the observation of courses and congresses within the special...
This study is aimed at knowing how the health professionals of a Reference Hospital in Infectious diseases experienced the AIDS epidemic, while caring for people with the disease during the period of 1986-2006. A qualitative study with a socio-histor...
This paper analyses the end-of-life care in palliative care settings, exploring the tensions betwen a “more human” health care and the medicalization of the dying. The research on which the article is based follows a qualitative methodological a...
The article presents an approach to the collective actions of participation in municipal health councils. The research underlying it aimed to verify the performance of the council in the municipal health councils in the Metropolitan Region of Bel&eac...
The cross-sectional study analyzed the influence of age on the perception of finitude and quality of life (QOL) of government employees, with a non-probabilistic sample by accessibility composed of 471 employees with an average of 40 years old. A sel...
Currently, there is a notorious concern of researchers in debating questions that generate ethical conflicts, in health assistance field, directed to the human being in terminal phase, in particular, on euthanasia, dysthanasia and orthothanasia. This...
