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Article (Mirabilia Medicinæ)
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Medical Humanities – The Edmund Pellegrino’s Project
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Humanidades Médicas – O Projeto de Edmund Pellegrino
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Keywords: Medical Humanities – Edmund Pellegrino.
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Espírito Santo’s Regional Council of Medicine and Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine Positions on Voluntary Abortion
Sandra Helena PEREIRA
Original title: Posição do Conselho Regional de Medicina do Espírito Santo (CRM-ES) e do Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM) sobre o abortamento voluntário
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Keywords: Abortion – Bioethics – Health Policy – Legalization of Abortion.
This work presents the official position of Espírito Santo’s Regional Council of Medicine and of the Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine on voluntary abortion liberation. It also tries to show several aspects that should be taken into account when discussing such question, which remains controversial in Brazilian society.
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Juridical, Social and Ethical Aspects of Abortion
Leonardo Serafini PENITENTE
Original title: Aspectos Jurídicos, Sociais e Éticos do Aborto
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Keywords: Abortion – Bioethics – Socialism – Health Policy – Catholicism.
The article presents social, juridical and ethical aspects of the voluntary abortion liberation, revealing political agents and possible consequences if abortion becomes legalized.
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Voluntary Abortion − Debate
Leonardo Serafini PENITENTE, Hélio ANGOTTI NETO, Ricardo da COSTA, Sandra Helena PEREIRA
Original title: Debate Sobre o Abortamento Voluntário
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Keywords: Abortion – Bioethics – Public Health.
Multidisciplinary debate on voluntary abortion liberation involving physicians, philosophers, lawyers, psychologists and embryologists.
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Etymology in Human Anatomy as a Tool for Medicine Learning
Marcos César de SOUSA, José Guilherme Pinheiro PIRES
Original title: Etimologia Anatômica como Auxílio à Aprendizagem em Medicina
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Keywords: Human Anatomy – Etymology – Medical Education.
Experience report in Medical Education and Etymology in Medicine. Several medical students, under specialized guidance, revised the etymology of many Human Anatomy's terms using specific bibliographic sources. Such study can improve proficiency in Portuguese and also can help learning Human Anatomy. This work in its complete form will be published in Textbook format.
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The use of three-dimensional clay model in the teaching-learning process of Human Embryology
Sheila Recepute SILVEIRA, Nilce Marzola IDERIHA
Original title: Uso de modelo tridimensional de argila no ensino-aprendizagem de Embriologia Humana
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Keywords: 3D Model – Human Embryology – Teaching – Learning.
Human embryological development is complex and involves three-dimensional changes. Therefore, the correspondence between the 2D and 3D views is very important for communication and learning in embryo development. It´s essential for students to understand such morphological changes in normal development to provide an explanation for the anatomy observed in child and adult. Besides, they need to learn normal development to understand the origins of developmental anomalies. It is difficult for students to imagine three-dimensionally and grasp the different changes that occur simultaneously during human development. For this, teaching embryology has been considered a challenge for most of the teachers who are committed to this task. This paper reports the experience of using three-dimensional models in embryology classes and presents some testimonials from students.
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The Heart’s Emptiness XĪN XŪ 心虛: interpretations about the book of Chinese medicine HUÁNG DÌ NÈI JĪNG LÍNG SHŪ 黃帝內經靈樞
Renata Palandri Sigolo SELL, Luis Fernando Bernardi JUNQUEIRA
Original title: O Vazio do Coração XĪN XŪ 心虛: interpretações sobre o livro de medicina chinesa HUÁNG DÌ NÈI JĪNG LÍNG SHŪ 黃帝內經靈樞
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Keywords: Chinese Medicine – History of Ancient China – Huang Di Nei Jing – Daoism.
This article is a study about the concept of Heart XĪN 心 in the book of Chinese medicine HUÁNG DÌ NÈI JĪNG LÍNG SHŪ 黃帝內經靈樞, which plays a very important role in Chinese medicine history from more than two thousand years until today. Available evidence suggests that at the basis of LÍNG SHŪ 靈樞 is a layer of texts written during the end of the Warring States period (475-221 B.C), through Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C) and the beginning of Western Han dynasty (206 B.C – 9 A.C). In LÍNG SHŪ chapter 8, the Heart is presented as Emptiness XŪ 虚, empty as Heaven TIĀN 天 and, thereby, the residence of the Spirits SHÉN 神 and connection between us and nature. The Heart is Empty because it is able to remain free from attachment and aversion to any experience, phenomenon or living being. The notion of Heart’s Emptiness XĪN XŪ 心虛 was written under the influence of Daoists texts such as LǍOZǏ 老子 and ZHŪANGZǏ 莊子, thus we can comprehend the strong relation between Chinese medicine and several another aspects of Chinese culture.
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Editorial: The Foundations of Bioethics
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Editorial: Os Fundamentos da Bioética
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Keywords: Bioethics, Foundations of Bioethics.
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The Hippocratic Oath: a referential preview of contemporary Bioethics
José Benjamim GOMES
Original title: O Juramento de Hipócrates: uma antevisão referencial da Bioética contemporânea
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Keywords: Autonomy, Bioethics, Hippocratic Oath, Professional Code, Sacredness of Life.
This work shows the actuality of the Hippocratic Oath in contemporary days, especially in Bioethics. The great benefices and challenges imposed by the medical science and technology advancement cannot be underestimated. There is a great gap between a highly technic and pragmatic biomedicine and a true humanizing medicine. In the last decades, the risky human experimentation and the medical technology improvement increased even more the risks, the challenges and the conflicts that threat the great ethical values already historically consecrated. The Ethical Medics were reduced to the professional Code, and Deontology itself could not answer to moral conflicts and antagonisms between different philosophical traditions. Bioethics, as a philosophy of biomedical practice and investigation, actually is the space of such discussion, and has in the Hippocratic Oath the origin of its principles and issues. Among the ethical principles in the Oath, the sacredness of life appears as a compromise solemnly proclaimed, without any concession to abortion or euthanasia. Even if such questions are categorically portrayed in the Oath, they remain highly controversial in Bioethics, if we take into account the contemporary interpretation given to principles like autonomy and liberty of the individual. The contemporary ethical pluralism allows different pathways to highly conflictive questions that were already points of conflict in Ancient Greece. Although the controversies of historical and conceptual nature seem to compromise the Hippocratic tradition prestige, its prescriptions cannot be left aside when controversial questions in the fields of Ethics, Science and Medical Technology are raised in the Academy. Although twenty-five centuries separate the Hippocratic Oath from the contemporary Bioethics, the history of medicine shows that it is in this new field of knowledge that the relevance of that ancient text appears. Judged as conservative or even anachronic by some and as an ethical parameter of great importance by others, the Hippocratic Oath still remains as a millenary reference in the ethical stance adopted by Health professionals; and this happens always when such professionals are confronted with the risks, challenges and moral conflicts generated by science and medical technology.
