{"title":"How literature can help develop a nursing perspective: the contribution of the novel “Mend the Living”","authors":"Nicolas Vonarx","doi":"10.3917/rsi.151.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Including the humanities in health sciences training is a means of humanizing healthcare practice. The humanities and social sciences, but also artistic disciplines such as dance, film, theater, and literature make it possible to take into account the complexity of lived experiences and to deepen the notion of caring. In this paper, we revisit the relevance and usefulness of literature in educating healthcare workers. We analyze “Mend the Living”, a novel by Maylis de Kerangal that explores the issue of organ harvesting, to show how content of this kind can deepen caregivers' perspectives. Constantly referring to the text as if it were anthropological field data, we open the door to themes of significant phenomenological, ethical, political, and anthropo-sociological interest that could be used as spaces of encounter and pedagogical reflection.</p>","PeriodicalId":44071,"journal":{"name":"Recherche en Soins Infirmiers","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Recherche en Soins Infirmiers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rsi.151.0008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Including the humanities in health sciences training is a means of humanizing healthcare practice. The humanities and social sciences, but also artistic disciplines such as dance, film, theater, and literature make it possible to take into account the complexity of lived experiences and to deepen the notion of caring. In this paper, we revisit the relevance and usefulness of literature in educating healthcare workers. We analyze “Mend the Living”, a novel by Maylis de Kerangal that explores the issue of organ harvesting, to show how content of this kind can deepen caregivers' perspectives. Constantly referring to the text as if it were anthropological field data, we open the door to themes of significant phenomenological, ethical, political, and anthropo-sociological interest that could be used as spaces of encounter and pedagogical reflection.
将人文学科纳入卫生科学培训是使卫生保健实践人性化的一种手段。人文和社会科学,以及舞蹈、电影、戏剧和文学等艺术学科,使人们有可能考虑到生活经历的复杂性,并加深关怀的概念。在本文中,我们重温相关性和有用的文献在教育卫生保健工作者。我们分析了梅里斯·德·凯兰加尔(Maylis de Kerangal)的小说《治愈生者》(Mend the Living),该小说探讨了器官摘取问题,以展示这类内容如何加深护理人员的观点。不断引用文本,就好像它是人类学领域的数据一样,我们打开了重要现象学,伦理,政治和人类社会学兴趣的主题的大门,这些主题可以用作相遇和教学反思的空间。