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Pragal, Almada

Efeméride do dia

A  efeméride googleana do dia 🙂 o nascimento de Louisa May Alcott, autora de “Mulherzinhas”

Who was Louisa May Alcott and what is her famous book Little Women about?

“The book, in which the four women all have unique identities, may seem overly moralistic and formal by today’s standards, but set a mark for female individualism in the 1860s. The women were at the centre of the book and fully formed characters who grappled with their own choices, even within traditional domestic roles.

Fundamentally, though, the book became a classic coming of age title for millions of girls with relatable and interesting characters.”

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Pensamento do dia

Ler começa com os olhos. (…)

Um facto é óbvio para todos os leitores: as letras são apreendidas pela visão. Mas através de que alquimia se transformam as letras em palavras inteligíveis? Que se passa dentro de nós quando nos confrontamos com um texto? Como é que as coisas são vistas, as “substâncias” que chegam através dos olhos ao nosso laboratório interno, as cores e formas dos objectos e das letras, se tornam legíveis? Que é, na realidade, o acto a que chamamos ler?

Ler em voz alta, ler em silêncio, ser capaz de transportar na mente bibliotecas íntimas de palavras relembradas são capacidades extraordinárias que adquirimos através de métodos incertos. No entanto, antes de estas capacidades poderem ser adquiridas, o leitor precisa de aprender a técnica básica de reconhecer os signos comuns pelos quais uma sociedade escolheu comunicar; por outras palavras, tem de aprender a ler.

Nós somos aquilo que lemos.”

Alberto Manguel, citando F. Bacon, em “Uma história da Leitura“

Polidez, pequena virtude

 

“Politeness is viewed as a rational, rule-governed, pragmatic aspect of speech that is rooted in the human need to maintain relationships and avoid conflicts.”

Kasper

[Lendo] 305 | Gerda Ploug Sharpe

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Homenagem ao 25 de Abril em Trásdaponte,  Seixal.

Escultura de Pedro Anjos Teixeira, inaugurada em
25 de Abril de 1982. [Fotos outubro 2016]

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Livraria Nazareth, Praça de Giraldo, Évora

Toponímia[s] e António Gedeão

Lisboa, rua do Arco do Limoeiro (hoje rua Augusto Rosa), freguesia da Sé

“Thanksgiving special”, pratos criativos por Hannah Rothstein

Em novembro de 2014 e de 2015, Hannah Rothstein apresentou uma série de fotografias  intituladas  Thanksgiving Special,  a partir de artistas famosos, ao estilo de Magritte, Pollock, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Miró, etc… Ver   Rothstein’s website

Vejamos: René Magritte

Vincent Van Gogh

Pablo Picasso

Jackson Pollock

George Seurat

Andy Warthol

Rothko

Joan Miro

Gustav Klimt

Georgia O’Keeffe

Salvador Dali

Keith Haring

Piet Mondrian

 

pelas ruas… inspirador :)

Numa esquina curva,  bem visível a quem atravessa a passadeira próxima ao cruzamento da Rua Correia Garção, com a Calçada da Estrela….

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R. Cidade de Ostrava, Almada

“A landmark case transforms informed consent in the UK”, BioEdge

“A ruling by a UK court last year forces doctors to tell their patients the full range of treatment options and allowing them to choose. The Royal College of Surgeons has warned of “a dramatic increase in the number of litigation pay-outs” made if doctors and hospitals do not make changes to the processes they use to gain consent from patients before surgery.

Traditionally it was up to British doctors to decide what risks to communicate to patients. But last year the UK Supreme Court held in a case called Montgomery vs Lanarkshire Health Board, that doctors must ensure patients are aware of any and all risks that an individual patient, not a doctor, might consider significant.

In other words, doctors can no longer be the sole arbiter of determining what risks are material to the patient.

In the past, litigation in malpractice suits was governed by the Bolam principle, which saw the judgement of medical experts as the main criterion for assessing reasonable care in negligence cases and for deciding what risks should be communicated to the patient for a chosen treatment.

Now the pendulum has swung from the “reasonable doctor” to the “reasonable patient”. This could mean a huge increase in the workload of doctors. A spokesman for the College said:

“It’s not hard to see how in many hospitals gaining a patient’s consent has become a paper tick-box exercise, hurriedly done in the minutes before a patient is wheeled into theatre for their procedure. Operating lists and consultation clinics are packed leaving little time for these important consent discussions. Patients must be given enough time to make an informed decision about their treatment and hospitals are going to have to give serious thought to how they plan in time for these discussions.”

Philippa Taylor, a bioethicist with the Christian Medical Fellowship, in London, believes that the Montgomery ruling may have the unexpected consequence of curbing abortion in the UK.

There is no absolute legal requirement for the doctor to have seen a patient requesting an abortion, or to have a one-to-one conversation about personal values and beliefs. However the new ruling has now made it clear that in the consent process doctors should explore options with that specific patient in mind. Those who ignore or withhold information due to bias (or paternalism) are breaking the law.

It is also possible that doctors who withhold information on the risks of abortion, even if small, such as the now well recognised link between abortions and later preterm deliveries, and the link to adverse mental health consequences, and even on the possible link to breast cancer, evidenced in some research, may be at risk of now breaking the law. It seems that the case for independent abortion counselling and accurate information giving has just got stronger.”

(os negritos foram assinalados por mim)

– See more at: http://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/a-landmark-case-transforms-informed-consent-in-the-uk/12082#sthash.2mpKywVJ.dpuf

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