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Pour/quoi la littérature ? Utilité de la lecture dans les études en santé
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Si les questions touchant l’humain et la santé s’avèrent de plus en plus complexes, et interpellent une approche translationnelle, tissant ensemble la science et la vie dans sa diversité, le développement des pratiques et, souvent, des enseignements, vont dans le sens inverse, suivant des perspectives de plus en plus spécialisées, découpées, détachées du « tout » du problème. À regarder l’objet de trop près, nous devenons (tous) de grands myopes ! C’est assez dire l’atout de « ce sujet où tout se rattache, l’art littéraire », qui, depuis toujours, se frotte à tous les savoirs, telle une mathesis universalis comme l’a observé Roland Barthes. Et en même temps — le paradoxe n’en est pas un — la littérature se caractérise par la plus grande singularité. Il suffit de penser aux millions de personnages qui la peuplent : il n’en est pas deux qui soient les mêmes ! À ce compte, pour/quoi la littérature dans les études de santé ? L’article propose quelques éléments de réponse en évoquant les bénéfices fictionnels et émotionnels de la lecture envisagée comme « expérience de pensée », et en illustrant le propos de deux exemples tirés un ouvrage anthologique conc¸u comme un « laboratoire virtuel pour la réflexion éthique ».
Although questions touching upon the humanand health are proving to be increasingly complex, and calling for a translational approach, weaving together science and life in all its diversity, the development of practices and, often, of teachings, are moving in the opposite direction, following some increasingly specialised, cutting-edge approaches, detached from the‘‘whole’’ problem. If one looks at an object too closely, one risks becoming very shortsighted !This is merely an emphasis on the asset of ‘‘this subject to which everything is connected,literary art’’ (Mallarmé), which has always been bound with all aspects of knowledge, like amathesis universalis in the words of Roland Barthes. And at the same time — it is not the paradoxit seems to be — literature is characterised by the utmost singularity. One simply has to thinkof the millions of characters who populate it: no two are the same ! So, for/what is literaturein health education? This article seeks to answer this question by discussing the fictional andemotional benefits of reading as a ‘‘thought experiment’’, and by illustrating the point withtwo examples from an anthology conceived as a ‘‘virtual laboratory for ethical reflection’’.© 2020 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
Although questions touching upon the humanand health are proving to be increasingly complex, and calling for a translational approach, weaving together science and life in all its diversity, the development of practices and, often, of teachings, are moving in the opposite direction, following some increasingly specialised, cutting-edge approaches, detached from the‘‘whole’’ problem. If one looks at an object too closely, one risks becoming very shortsighted !This is merely an emphasis on the asset of ‘‘this subject to which everything is connected,literary art’’ (Mallarmé), which has always been bound with all aspects of knowledge, like amathesis universalis in the words of Roland Barthes. And at the same time — it is not the paradoxit seems to be — literature is characterised by the utmost singularity. One simply has to thinkof the millions of characters who populate it: no two are the same ! So, for/what is literaturein health education? This article seeks to answer this question by discussing the fictional andemotional benefits of reading as a ‘‘thought experiment’’, and by illustrating the point withtwo examples from an anthology conceived as a ‘‘virtual laboratory for ethical reflection’’.© 2020 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
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Littérature Expérience de pensée Récits de fiction Émotions narratives Lecture littéraire Éthique médicale
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Cabral, M. J., « Pour/quoi la littérature ? Utilité de la lecture dans les études en santé », in Médecine Palliative, Soins de support – accompagnement – éthique, Elsevier Masson, nov. 2020 | Doi : 10.1016/j.medpal.2020.09.001
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Elsevier Masson