Rev. Soc. Bras. Enferm. Ped.2005;5(1):39-45.

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MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY THOUGHTS’ CONTRIBUTIONS TO BEING CHILD AND BEING ADOLESCENT: SUBSIDIES TO PEDIATRIC NURSING PRACTICE

DOI: 10.31508/1676-3793200500006

Abstract

Merleau-Ponty has been contributing significantly to the study about nuances of nursing care for children and adolescents, especially on pediatric nursing when intend to unmask the meaning of being health and becoming illness, and the place of healthful in their lives, even if there is a cancer disease. So, this study was developed to present the contribution of this theorist to pediatric nursing research, methodizing it on the analysis of an interpretative qualitative study that brings the meanings of being child and adolescent living with alternative health and onco-hematologic illness in existing life. The study evidenced the importance of his phenomenological approach to care for children is much more than perception, language, meaning beyond the expressive acts of children and adolescent, using at this trajectory of phenomenological analysis compounded by the sensible intuition, the categorical intuition and the reduction. This study allowed us to consider a phenomenological reflection allowed understanding health and illness as a manifestation of the horizon lived and experienced by human being of the plurality of experiences with the “other”. But, it rescues the sense of the human essence showing that taking care is also more wide than cure. In fact, his phenomenology perception showed the reason of thinking, the understanding of taking care of human beings, considering them in theirs context and human relation that arise from this care as a holistic approach.