Susana P.L. MagalhãesUniversity of Porto | UP · i3S Instituto de investigação e inovação em Saúde
Susana P.L. Magalhães
PhD in Bioethics
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Introduction
PhD in Bioethics, with a dissertation intitled "Bioethics and Literature: between Imagination and Responsibility"
Main field of research: Research Integrity and Narrative Medicine
Professional experience: Lecturer and researcher in Ethics and Deontology (mainly in the Health Area); Lecturer in Foreign Languages -- English and German --; and in Portuguese for Foreigners.
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September 2019 - present
January 1995 - present
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Publications (30)
The Covid pandemic has led us into an upheaval that has made us question the certainties underlying what it means to be a human being in our age; the ability to control medical and social facts through evidence. For the first-time western and developed countries have had to confront what many populations from the developing world (Africa. Latin Ame...
The aim of this chapter is to reflect upon the role of narratives in healthcare while we are witnessing and experiencing a pandemic in real time. Considering that narratives are not only therapeutic tools but also pillars of therapeutic relationships, we argue that this is the right time to integrate narrative medicine into the syllabus of medical...
The authors elaborate on the ethical issues of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Neurosurgery
Objective: This paper aims to analyse parents' and health professionals' discourse, regarding four main areas: (1) the experience of care; (2) communication among all stakeholders; (3) ethical issues; (4) and ethical decision-making. Methodology: The authors collected 62 narratives from health professionals and parents whose newborns have been hosp...
Objective: This paper aims to analyse parents’ and health professionals’ discourse, regarding four main areas: (1) the experience of care; (2) communication among all stakeholders; (3) ethical issues; (4) and ethical decision-making. Methodology: The authors collected 62 narratives from health professionals and parents whose newborns have been hosp...
1 Abstract / Introduction Along with technical and scientific knowledge, it´s important to focus the care on the newborn and his family in a holistic and comprehensive approach. Skills and perspectives conferred by narrative medicine will allow doctors to recognize suffering, to interpret and be moved by the story of those who suffer and those who...
Introduction: The practice and study of pain management pose myriad ethical challenges. There is a consensual opinion that adequate management of pain is a medical obligation rooted in classical Greek practice. However, there is evidence that patients often suffer from uncontrolled and unnecessary pain. This is inconsistent with the leges artis, an...
RESULTS: The original TIME authors fully endorsed the back translated version. A Portuguese version was created. Forty-three participants (response rate of 62%) were included, 53% of whom were male. The average age was 69 years old (range, 60-80 years old). The interviewed elderly strongly felt that the ESEU's summary captured their essence as a pe...
O lugar da Literatura na Bioética está estruturado em dois eixos: o eixo
dos conteúdos e o das capacidades exigidas na escrita e na leitura e que
são essenciais na deliberação ética: as capacidades de narrar e de escutar,
de interpretar, de imaginar, de dialogar, de se assumir como um self que é
outro para si mesmo e para os Outros, de fazer se...
Reading enhances our imagination, our narrating and listening skills, our capacity to deal with time and space, thus enlightening our ethical self-awareness as human beings. The key to know how to deal with theoretical principles and practical cases lies in hermeneutics, since a demanding ethical position requires a demanding hermeneutical procedur...
Reading enhances our imagination, our narrating and listening skills, our capacity to
deal with time and space, thus enlightening our ethical self-awareness as human
beings. The key to know how to deal with theoretical principles and practical cases lies
in hermeneutics, since a demanding ethical position requires a demanding
hermeneutical proc...
Chernobyl é considerado um marco na tomada de consciência em relação ao risco global que, com o desastre em 1986, ganha forma e materialidade. Tal consciência parece inscrever-se num processo que Ulrich Beck descreve como cosmopolitização, vivido como uma experiência de partilha e interdependência global, na medida em que os riscos globais alteram...
As Arendt puts it “without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wander helplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart” (Human Condition, 237). In the novel Never let me go, 2005, by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro, we are faced wi...
Humanities have already been criticized for enclosing themselves in a self-referential world that needs to interact with other fields of knowledge in order to accomplish its original aim: to make human life meaningful. Based on The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann and on the concept of Narrative Medicine by Rita Charon, this essay sheds light on the r...
A ponte entre a Bioética e a Literatura suscita uma reflexão sobre o modo como a ficção literária permite alargar o nosso olhar, o nosso discurso e a nossa deliberação sobre a realidade. Na área da Medicina e dos cuidados de saúde em geral, este aprofundamento do modo de olhar é essencial num mundo que é hoje descentrado, globalizado e percorrido p...
O termo a narrativa na ética implica uma perspectiva da integradora de normas e narrativas na ética. Outras
possibilidades relativamente a este termo seriam: a ética da narrativa, que se refere à ética da narração e ao
acto de ouvir; a narrativa da ética, pela qual se sublinha o lugar da tradição e da comunidade na ética vivida, e
se destaca a base...
Since the focus of Bioethics is the bridge between Humanities and the Life Sciences and bearing in mind that this bridge is often difficult to build, those who believe that this dialogue is important in our days should promote it through Education. By educating in Bioethics it is possible to improve the participation of the citizens in debates on t...
Paul Ricoeur elicits us to have a multiple approach, since it is precisely in our interaction with the Other
that we find the meaning of reality and of ourselves. This multiple approach is also part of Bioethics, a
transdisciplinary area of ethical deliberation upon human action, where Literature can be considered as a
privileged resource of dia...
We are daily faced with a global environmental crisis. We know that there are various reasons for the world-wide environmental issues, but we also know that human action is at the centre of this crisis, which urges us to act instead of just focusing on the theoretical dimension of the problem.
Changing the pattern of our behaviour is the main chall...
Ethics is the study of the moral basis of human behavior that aims to determine the best course of action. Bioethics, as a transdisciplinary area, based both on ethics and on life sciences, reflects upon the ethical problems raised by new technologies and scientific research. One of the main tools to tackle bioethical problems is deliberation, a pr...
The ethical issues concerning the use of PGD (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis) to select embryos of a particular HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen) type are numerous. They arise from the potentially conflicting interests between those of the pre-existing child, the subject of a treatment which may be curative, and those of the sibling to be created, w...
Our reflection upon autonomy and its central role for the moral condition of human beings is based on the analysis of two narratives on the Leviathan: the philosophical/political essay by Thomas Hobbes and the novel - Leviathan - by Paul Auster. Narrative as a source of ethical reflection enables us to place the concepts in space and time, which is...
This essay underlines the role played by the movie Avatar, which discloses the virtual space as a place of experiment, as a place of compromise and not as a source of alienation. Avatar also provides us with the opportunity to revise both the concept of Bioethics by Potter and the role of the Body in a society characterized by an obsession with the...
Neste trabalho analisa-se a trilogia austeriana enquanto texto pós-modernista e enquanto reflexão parodiante sobre o pós-modernismo, partindo de um motivo central a estes dois ramos da análise: o duplo. A questão do duplo é investigada no âmbito da identidade e linguagem pós-modernos, no âmbito das relações intra e intertextuais da trilogia, ou sej...
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Esta série de documentários têm por objectivo a divulgação da Ciência através das questões éticas inerentes aos avanços científicos. Através das questões éticas relacionadas com a ciência podemos promover a literacia em ciência e saúde. Sabendo que a ética constitui uma reflexão sobre o modo de alcançarmos a vida boa, com e para os outros, em instituições justas, as questões éticas em Ciência permitem integrar a relação entre o indivíduo e a Ciência no contexto social e cultural que é fonte de significação. Por outro lado, partindo do pressuposto que a literacia científica cívica implica a consciência de cada um como membro activo na deliberação e tomada de decisão nos assuntos públicos relacionados com a ciência, a reflexão sobre questões éticas desperta esta mesma consciência, aumentando o interesse do cidadão no tema científico e promovendo a cidadania.
