Stella Zita de Azevedo

Partindo do solo da fenomenologia da Vida de Michel Henry, este artigo visa problematizar a lógica objectivista do discurso científico contemporâneo e seu impacto na objectivação da ideia de vida e de saúde, nomeadamente a partir da experiência vivida da carne, e que excede a estreiteza da discursividade biotecnológica na redução da experiência de si à sua corporeidade.

Starting from the modern oblivion of existential-phenomenological qualities of  nitude and fragility of the patient in his state of dependence, we enfocus that, by the narrative act (subjective dimension of narrative) the patient/ ill person feels what he experiences as a ‘gap’ in his personal history. Allowing the exploration of the speci city of the disposal of narrative themes within a given existence, the narrative resends us to the universally shareable experiences in terms of formal and generative structure (e.g. hope, anguish, pain, desire). These are the narrative themes of the suffering and/or dying subject, which give  esh to common principles for speci c caregiving in a social group, facilitating the acting together within the framework of an applied ethics, which respects the singularity of the person. A methodology of narration should, therefore, be based on the constitution of an ethics of signi cance, action and decision on the collective plan, privileged place for re ection, where the emotions and the consequences of the action are re ected and where the applied ethics (applicatio) is manifested as normalizing rewriting activity. The diffusion of the narrative ethics culture is, therefore,
one of the foundations of the (re) construction of a form of social bonding capable of not letting us wander between individualism and communitarianism, whilst its work reside in the articulation between the narrative dimension of the case (subjective historicity) and the demand for guiding principles of judgment (historicity in clinic  eld), preserving from arbitrary of the political-economic and the medical decisions.