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Published on: January 7, 2019
[Gadamer: grounding a proposal for the study of stress in the surgical center]
Rita Catalina Aquino Caregnato1, Rosa Maria Filippozzi Martini, Liana Lautert
1Este artigo resultou do trabalho elaborado para a disciplina História e Filosofia da Ciência do Curso de Mestrado em Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
Abstract:
This article makes a reflection on philosophical foundation to support the methodology in order to study the stress of professionals who work in the operating theater. The qualitative research allows a comprehensive access to the world of each subject, revealing the individual perception of whom experiences the phenomenon. Gadamer understands that the language reveals and is suitable to evaluate properly, through hermeneutics, the symbolic dimension of the subject's speech. Hermeneutics is not only just a theory of the comprehension and interpretation art but much more than that, it is close to the practical philosophy, having to respond for the methodological feature of things whose understanding it provides.
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