Doctor-patient relationship: semiotics aspects of passion and persuasion / Da relação médico-paciente: aspectos semióticos de paixão e persuasão

AUTOR(ES)

Vítor França Galvão

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This thesis intends to study some semiotics aspects of passion and persuasion in the doctor-patient relationship, a relationship marked by verticalization and complexity - on the one hand, the power of persuasion of a doctor who has the know-how; on the other hand, the fragility of someone who is ill and needs to be cured. On this study, a synthetic history of Western Medicine will be shown, including a comparison between the modern doctors and old witch doctors from primitive tribes. It´ll be clear that the status of the modern doctors has not changed from that time because both of them, when they get to cure a person, can bring back the patient to his social group, since any ill person is separated from his family and friends due to the ilness. After that, the theoric patterns of Greimas and Pais will be shown in order to study three cases told by three different doctors from three different areas of Medicine: Orthopedics, Head and Neck Surgery and Cardiology. With the semiotic analysis of the cases, the "interpretation of the world" will be identified according to the relationship studied, as well as the analysis of the behavior of the characters searching their goals: the recovering from the illness. We will find the doctor who must obey the laws of his profession, as well the commandments of Bioethics, to be approved by the social group in which he lives; but we will find, too, the patient who often expects more than he should from his doctor. J. Campbell´s theories about "The mith of the hero" and Jung´s "Theory of the Archetypes" will be important to this work too. In short, this work tried to study, considering Semiotic and Bioethic, the conditions and problems envolving the relationship between doctor and patient. We hope we can give some contribuiton to future works that may intend to investigate the Medicine world.

ASSUNTO(S)

doctor-patient relationship; medicine; semiotics medicina (análise do discurso); relações médico-paciente; semiótica

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