The disease also cures: the disease as a source of authentic human life in the literary work of Fernando Namora
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i29.107145Keywords:
Fernando Namora, literature, narrative medicine, diseaseAbstract
From the books Retalhos da vida de um médico, O homem disfarçado and Domingo à tarde, from the Portuguese writer Fernando Namora, in which the protagonists are doctors, we reflect on: the fictionalization of clinical activity; the intersection of the patient`s individual knowledge and the universal knowledge of the disease (summoning the lukácsian concept of particularity); meanings and assignable prejudice to the disease (personal and social); psychological and emotional states of patients and doctors (taking as a starting point confession and self-analysis); anamnesis and doctor-patient interaction; how the disease may contribute to the fall of the masks of those who have to deal with it, both patients and clinicians.Downloads
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