Western culture valorizes the skinny, mainly based on the biomedicine discoveries, which have transformed the fatty body into a synonym not only of lack of health, but of a “dehumanised body”, a pejorative character of failure morals. So, the aim...
The fact that adolescents are compelled to work can usually be explained as caused by financial needs of their families. The objectives of this study are to characterize the content and the structure of the social representation of adolescence work, ...
The epidemiological literature has been limited by the absence of a theoretical framework reflecting the complexity of causal mechanisms for the occurrence of health phenomena/disease conditions. In the field of oral epidemiology such lack of theory ...
The principle of respect for autonomy has proved very useful for bioethics arguments in favour of euthanasia. However unquestionable its theoretical efficacy, countless aporiae can be raised whenever one conducts an accurate analysis of the concept, ...
Summary: The aim of this article is to present a perception of man during the historical period in relation to residues produced through human activities. The article is presented in three parts: 1) relate the episode of black plague during XIV centu...
This study had as objective to analyze the model of attention to the oral health in nine municipal districts of the state of Pernambuco, starting from the report of the Coordinators of Oral Health. It was carried through an interview semi-structured ...
Des tentatives pour implanter une poli1tique des médicaments à bas prix existent depuis 1970 au Brésil. Pour faire face à la puissance des multinationales de l’industrie pharmaceutique et rendre possible la fabrication d...
ABSTRACT This study has the objective to map what have been produced academically about vague and diffuse symptoms in biomedical area. As methodological tool, we have done a bibliographic study on the Internet, in books and specialized manuals about...
