TAKING CARE OF THE OTHER, TAKING CARE OF THE SELF IN THE PHARMACY PROFESSION: AN INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS TRAINING PROGRAMME IN CYPRUS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Stamatogianni
2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-275
Author(s):  
FABRIZIO TUROLDO

AbstractIs it possible to trace the contours of a bioethical reflection on nutrition? The present study tries to do so, relying on the metaphorical and symbolic value that food often takes. Indeed, eating does not mean just getting sufficient nutrition, because through the offer and exchange of food, people recognize and welcome each other. In this sense we are all, in some way, cannibals, because in eating, we eat the other, even if the introjection of the other is only symbolic and not literal, as in the case of actual cannibals. Eating habits are also very rooted in various cultures and sometimes resist migratory flows to a greater extent than language and religion do. Consequently, the disgust for, or the refusal of, other people’s food may be an indicator of a more general rejection of the diversity of other people. The conclusion reached by this study is that eating is taking care of the self and of the other and, therefore, as Jacques Derrida observes, it is necessary to “eat well” and also “eat the good.”


2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 895-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida Baggio ◽  
Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann

The aim of this qualitative study was to comprehend the relationships of the care of the self, of care of the other, and of care "of the us" in the different dimensions of care, through an educational/reflexive/interpretative process with nursing professionals in a University Hospital, using the complexity perspective. The data were collected through workshops and submitted to content analysis. The following categories emerged: reflecting upon the meaning of care of the self, care of the other, and "of the us" for the "I - human being", and for the "I - nursing professional"; and reflecting and (re)constructing the meanings of the relationships of care for the self, care for the other, and care "for the us". The care "for the us" is an emerging theme, in construction, and impels a concern for the collective, as well as remits to the comprehension of the multiple and unending phenomenon of constant movement among the beings and between them and their environment, modifying, altering, and causing to be altered the networks of existent relationships.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (46) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Fernando Gimbo

Trata-se de mostrar como a ideia de “cuidado de si” deve ser compreendida a partir de um tensionamento caracterizado por um duplo movimento: por um lado, a afirmação da autoafecção como condição do processo de subjetivação; por outro lado, a necessidade de inscrever tal ipseidade no quadro mais amplo das pesquisas genealógicas centradas nas práticas de assujeitamento e dominação. Com isso, o objetivo é sugerir como o problema fundamental do último e inconcluso momento da obra de Foucault é a necessidade de repensar as condições de gênese do sujeito. Para tanto, o artigo é divido em dois momentos: primeiramente, recuperamos uma autocrítica realizada ao final da década de 70, quando, ao introduzir em suas análises o conceito de governamentalidade, Foucault une a temática do governo sobre os outros ao problema do governo de si. Em segundo lugar, analisar estrategicamente o tema da confissão (l’aveu) como exemplo do reconhecimento dessa dimensão autoafectiva da subjetividade dentro de relações de poder e assujeitamento. A partir disso, é possível assinalar certas consequências críticas em torno de uma certa “ética do cuidado de si” que seria própria ao pensamento foucaultiano. [This article aims to show how the idea of “care of the self" must be understood from the tension of a double movement: on the one hand, the affirmation of an auto-affection as a condition to a process of individuation. On the other hand, the need to incorporate such ipseity to the broader framework of genealogical research focused on the subjugation and domination practices. Thus, my goal is to suggest how the initial problem that runs through Foucault’s later works is the need to rethink the conditions of subjectivity genesis. Therefore, the article is divided into two parts: firstly, I recover Foucault’s self-criticism performed at the end of the 70s, when he introduces in his analysis the concept of governmentality. Secondly, I strategically analyze the theme of confession (l'aveu) as an example of recognizing this auto-affectivity dimension of subjectivity even within power relations. Finally, I point out certain possible consequences of such exposure on the theme of ethics in Foucault's thought.]


2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Dorrestijn

Abstract What can the art of living after Foucault contribute to ethics in relation to the mediation of human existence by technology? To develop the relation between technical mediation and ethics, firstly the theme of technical mediation is elaborated in line with Foucault’s notion of ethical problematization. Every view of what technology does to us at the same time expresses an ethical concern about technology. The contemporary conception of technical mediation tends towards the acknowledgement of ongoing hybridization, not ultimately good or bad but ambivalent, which means for us the challenge of taking care of ourselves as hybrid beings. Secondly, the work of Foucault provides elements for imagining this care for our hybrid selves, notably his notions of freedom as a practice and of the care of the self. A conclusions about technical mediation and ethics is that whereas the approaches of the delegation of morality to technology by Latour and mediated morality by Verbeek see technical mediation of behavior and moral outlook as an answer in ethics, this should rather be considered the problem that ethics is about.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Roberta Carvalho Romagnoli

ResumoEste texto pretende problematizar crise, crítica e clínicaatravés de um plano de imanência no qual coexistem linhas molares e moleculares, reproduções e invenções.  Baseado nas ideias de Deleuze e Guattari, a crise emerge como movimento de desestabilização, que tanto pode forçar a saída de territórios conhecidos, como se garantir em microfascismos. Por outro lado, a crítica é discutida emassociação ao cuidado de si, de Michel Foucault, associada à conquista de autonomia, à possibilidade de nos libertarmos a nós mesmos das racionalidades e tecnologias de poder da sociedade atual. Nessa perspectiva, a clínicacorre o risco de silenciar a crise, ao buscar uniformizar condutas, igualar modos de agir com modelos de sujeitos. Mas também pode se agenciar com a invenção ao sustentar multiplicidades, conexões entre diversos elementos que possuem dimensões próprias e conservam suas diferenças.Assim, crise, crítica e clínica podem formar planos de expansão da vida.Palavras-chave: Micropolítica; Crise; Crítica: Clínica AbstractThis paper intends to discuss the crisis, critique and clinic through a plane of immanence with the coexistence between molar and molecular lines, reproductions and inventions. Based on Deleuze and Guattari's ideas, the crisis emerges as destabilizing movement which both operates to force out of known territories and to ensure microfascisms. On the other hand, critique is discussed in association with the Michel´s Foucault concept Care of the Self, associated with the autonomy´s achievement, the ability to escapeof the rationalities and power technologies of our society. In this perspective, clinic risks to silence the crisis, to standardize the practices with subject models. But you can also connect with the invention when you sustain multiplicities, connections between various elements that have their own dimensions and retain their differences. Thus, crisis, critique and clinic can form expansion plans of life.Keywords: Micropolitics; Crisis; Critique;Clinic


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