It’s about time for untimely action
Illness, but also caring for the ill and mourning the dead, requires allowing oneself to experience a different time, an embodied untimeliness where different rhythms coexist, removed from the speedy tumult of those for whom health is no immediate concern. Rather than a chronological flow, it is a ...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública
2023-10-01
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| Series: | Revista Internacional de Educação e Saúde |
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| Online Access: | https://www5.bahiana.edu.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/5389 |
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| Summary: | Illness, but also caring for the ill and mourning the dead, requires allowing oneself to experience a different time, an embodied untimeliness where different rhythms coexist, removed from the speedy tumult of those for whom health is no immediate concern. Rather than a chronological flow, it is a kairotic time, which is sensitive to the context, and allows wanderings and repetitions, hesitations, and changes in pace[1]. Caring and mourning demands “untimeliness and disadjustment of the contemporary[2].” In that sense, the intimate experience of illness is comparable to a form of creativity.
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| ISSN: | 2594-7907 |