A Different Heart in Children´s Literature: The Juvenile Literature in Medical Education

Ana Mallet,Luciana Andrade,Fátima Geovanini,David Kestenberg

doi:10.36660/ijcs.20190143

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Abstract Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of a statement that provokes adult readers: “What if children’s stories become mandatory reading for adults? Would they really learn what they’ve been teaching for so long?”. 1 It is in this context that literary texts dedicated to children have been used at times in medical education and clinical practice to bring up often invisible subjectivities.

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The scope of children’s literature has exceeded the recommended age groups, and it is accepted that the same book can be appreciated by different ages, depending on readers’ demands and needs of each reader.Supported by the Narrative Medicine reports,[2,3,4] the possibility of using the so-called children’s literature has been investigated as a tool in the approach of topics related to medical practice
Mallet et al A different heart in childrens literature book’s somewhat didactic approach, it can help students to realize the whole network of repercussions behind a patient who suffers a heart attack
An event in a young patient with a child. This situation can bring consequences from the emotional point of view, and from social and economic ones. This didactic approach becomes even more explicit when, at the end of the book, we find the information on how to prevent and how to treat a heart attack, and what is a defibrillator, for instance

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The scope of children’s literature has exceeded the recommended age groups, and it is accepted that the same book can be appreciated by different ages, depending on readers’ demands and needs of each reader.Supported by the Narrative Medicine reports,[2,3,4] the possibility of using the so-called children’s literature has been investigated as a tool in the approach of topics related to medical practice. “I think he is sad” (the heart, and the father), thought Joaquim.

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