Sobre morrer com câncer: as lições de Hollywood

Abstract

The study attempts to understand how dying from cancer is portrayed by five movies produced in Hollywood between 1993 and 2006. Based on the cultural studies and their post-structuralism version and supported by the notions of discourse and subjectivity, as proposed by philosopher Michel Foucault, we suggest one of the possible readings of the movie picture corpus. We assess how the movie picture discourse acts as a cultural pedagogy that produces ways of seeing dying with cancer: immortalizing the healthy body image, silencing death, taking care of the dead body and, finally, accepting death. Our proposal is intended to stimulate reflections that may contribute to care and education in nursing.

Estudos culturais: possibilidades para pensar de outro modo a pesquisa em enfermagem

“…Câncer corpo e cinema: lições de Hollywood sobre adoecer e morrer (11) (published with the alternative title, Cancer, body and movie picture: Hollywood lessons about getting sick and dying) sought to identify how the body of cancer patients is presented in Hollywood films with adult characters in advanced stages of cancer. Based on cultural studies, in the post-structuralism form, the text shows how media teaches us to look at and care for the cancer patient since discovery of the illness to death.…”

“…Based on cultural studies, in the post-structuralism form, the text shows how media teaches us to look at and care for the cancer patient since discovery of the illness to death. The author uses cultural analysis based on the notions of speech and subjectivity proposed by the philosopher Michel Foucault to build three lessons from Hollywood on getting sick and dying and shows how cinema serves as a cultural educational tool that produces subjects who see the sick body in a certain way, teaches subjects to take care of that body and die of cancer, and provides clues on how we learned to relate to the disease from the artefacts of media (11) .…”

Processo de enfermagem para homens com câncer de laringe fundamentado no modelo de Neuman

“…Tal terapia origina cambios en el material genético o mutación, así como alteraciones en la función de la célula hasta su muerte. Así, la radiación ionizante causa daños a todas las células vivas, normales y malignas, resultando en los efectos colaterales (18)(19) .…”

“…En este estudio caracterizada por cansancio intenso tras la teleterapia y aumento de la necesidad de descanso, descritos por los entrevistados. La fatiga relacionada con el cáncer es un problema antes, durante y después del tratamiento, y puede continuar siendo un problema en supervivientes de cáncer (21) , autores también afirman que ella afecta a las actividades de la vida diaria de las personas afectadas (18)(19) .…”

“…Estudios señalan que el cáncer y su tratamiento, desencadenan profundas repercusiones emocionales, permaneciendo muchos de estos sentimientos reprimidos por razones no siempre conocidas y, tales repercusiones tienen un impacto psicosocial significativo sobre estos individuos y sus familias (3,6,18) . Sin embargo, solamente los propios hombres son capaces de sentir la profundidad de estos factores de estrés en su existencia.…”