“I rather have someone handling my heart than my mouth”: reflections on oral health care
Joaquim Gabriel de Andrade Couto,
Carlos Botazzo
Abstract:This article shares reflections on oral health care that emerged from the dialect relation between professional practice and theoretical research. It interrogates the concept of care disseminated by the biomedical discourse, in which care is a technique geared towards cure. We believe care to be an ontological dimension, an intrinsic characteristic of the human being from which they constitute themselves in the world. As such, we use the notion of buccality to situate the mouth as a territory that take part in… Show more
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