Discussion on the Cultivation of Critical Thinking in the Course of"Tuina Therapeutics"in Higher Traditional Chinese Medicine Colleges / 浙江中医药大学学报

[Objective]To analyze the necessity of the cultivation of critical thinking in the course of"Tuina Therapeutics" in higher traditional Chinese Medicine Colleges. [Methods]By using research methods of documents and logical analysis,a comprehensive analysis of significance and path of cultivating the"critical thinking" in the course of "Tuina Therapeutics" was carried out.[Result]"Tuina Therapeutics" is the main clinical course of acupuncture and massage.The cultivation of critical thinking in this course is of great value to the training of innovative talents in clinical practice of Chinese Tuina,and also the need to explore the truth of Tuina medicine in clinical practice of Chinese Tuina. The critical thinking can be cultivated by setting up the clinical Tuina situation,setting up the clinical thinking angle of Tuina,giving evidence,criticizing and summarizing, etc. [Conclusion]It is necessary to cultivate critical thinking in the course of"Tuina Therapeutics", and the learning process and learning environment should be taken into full consideration in the course of training of critical thinking.

Informação em saúde: produção, consumo e biopoder / Information on health: production, consumption and biopower

Este trabalho objetiva suscitar desconfianças ao valor atribuído à verdade médica presente na literatura biomédica. Tomou-se como exemplo a temática da proteção das práticas sexuais e recorreu-se às obras de pensadores como Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Bourdieu e, principalmente, Michel Foucault, a fim de pensarmos que a elaboração e o emprego de informações em saúde podem ser interpretados como práticas constitutivas de uma política que articula dinamicamente peritos e não peritos à verdade médica, constitutiva de uma moralidade que se apoia na produção e consumo dessa verdade. Uma política, denominada por Foucault de biopolítica, capaz de estabelecer modos de viver onde o exercício do pensamento parece não ser tão "recompensador", onde práticas de mando e de obediência a si são mediadas pela informação em saúde. Nesta perspectiva médicos e não médicos foram seduzidos pela vontade de atingir a verdade, de modo que se verifica o empenho de todos na produção e consumo de enunciados que acreditam poder prolongar a vida e salvá-la do adoecer; discursos cultivados no mercado de uma sociedade midiática, onde o controle dos indivíduos pela informação produz subjetividades que se ancoram no binômio: verdade médica-capital.

This article seeks to elicit misgivings regarding the value attributed to medical truth found in the biomedical literature. The issue of the protection of sexual practices was taken by way of example and the works of thinkers like Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, and especially Michel Foucault, were consulted. This was done in order to consider that the elaboration and use of health information can be interpreted as a practice constituting a policy that dynamically inspires both experts and non-experts on medical truth, constituting a morality that is based on the production and consumption of this truth. It is a policy that Foucault called biopolitics, able to establish ways of living where the exercise of thought does not seem to be so "rewarding," where practices of command and obedience are mediated by health information. In this perspective, physicians and non-physicians have been seduced by the desire to attain the truth, such that the commitment of everyone is seen to concentrate on the production and use of statements that they believe can prolong life and save from getting sick. These are discourses cultivated in the market of a media-dominated society in which individuals controlled by information produce subjectivities that are anchored in the medical-capital truth binomial.