Neste artigo, fazemos uma reflexão sobre o que seja cuidado, cuidado de enfermagem e de algumas premissas e consequências da realização deste cuidado. Assumimos o cuidado como componente essencial para a vida e dependente do amor, com as dimensões do eu, do outro e do planeta. Na enfermagem, o desafio que se coloca é como transformar este cuidado em cuidado terapêutico no qual, sujeito enfermo e sujeito cuidador se relacionem para buscar uma maior autonomia do primeiro, sempre com base em valores como conhecimento e respeito mútuo, ou seja: como realizar um cuidado mais plástico, mais arte ao lado da técnica, conhecendo o outro a partir do seu olhar.
This paper explores methodological issues of recording, revisiting and portraying women's life experiences and their connections to the past, to their families and to their communities. It examines the personal histories and collective memories of a group of low-income Hispanic women, through the application of an innovative research tool that uses pictures and storytelling as projective techniques. The FotoDialogo Method uses a set of original drawings to initiate dialogical interviews, to inspire research participants to tell their stories, and to critically analyze the situations presented in these stories. The research study took place at a community-based organization providing non-formal education programs to the Spanish-speaking population in a US inner-city setting. The FotoDialogo Method has the potential to be an effective tool to help underprivileged women break the silence concerning their experiences of oppression and to engage them in a process of self-discovery and transformation that empowers them to become change agents within their families and communities.
This article brings a reflection about the dilemma of the allocation of resources to health in a society, as the Brazilian one, marked by severe social inequalities among its citizens. For that, the concepts of equality and justice proposed by Amartya Sen (2001) are discussed and the bioethical point of view is proposed for the searching of an equitable sanitary justice. The conclusion is that this search demands a hard fight which must embrace a thoughtful process towards the construction of public health policies compromised with the interests of the social excluded and seeking for national policies which guarantee the efficacy of the health systems.
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