Aims: to comprehend how people who live with chronic venous ulcers perceive their existence towards these lesions; to describe and analyse, from the perspective of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, how these people comprehend their own existence. Method: this is a study of a qualitative approach using a descriptive phenomenological method. Study setting: Outpatient Wound Healing Centre of the teac...

The theme of this book is the deep continuity of life and mind. Where there is life there is mind, and mind in its most articulated forms belongs to life. Life and mind share a core set of formal or organizational properties, and the formal or organizational properties distinctive of mind are an enriched version of those fundamental to life. I take a twofold approach to these ideas in Mind in L...

The category "organism" has an ambiguous status: is it scientific or is it philosophical? Or, if one looks at it from within the relatively recent field or sub-field of philosophy of biology, is it a central, or at least legitimate category therein, or should it be dispensed with? In any case, it has long served as a kind of scientific bolstering for a philosophical train of argument which seek...

El siguiente artículo tiene dos intenciones: por un lado, a través de Levinas y Merleau- Ponty, mostrar la relevancia las herramientas fenomenológicas en el debate actual estética lo cotidiano; otro, defender tesis que específico cotidiano consiste comprender nuestra cotidianidad está fundada inherentemente elementos estéticos se integran vida forma irreflexiva. A su vez, dichos estéticos, pesa...

Qualitative approach about the implications that occur succeeding premature loss teeth is still insufficient. This study aimed to understand experience of early deciduous in children's lives, from perspective their caregivers. case included 52 caregivers children an outpatient service a public university south Brazil. Early trauma or caries was identified through analysis health records, and af...