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The written production of narratives has been used as a teaching-learning strategy in health education in the Baixada Santista campus of the Federal University of Sao Paulo. In the present study, the authors discuss how students explore this activity and how professors establish criteria to evaluate the material, which replaces conventional tests. Three experiences are presented: memorial, a biography about playing, and life history of users of a psychosocial care center. The method was based on the choice of excerpts from texts written by students of the class of 2014 and a posterior analysis grounded on the ideas of authors who discuss storytelling. The data points to the importance of considering the creative process when drafting a text, the transience

This study presents an ethnographic view about the experience of people who depend on hemodialysis to survive. The investigation focused on patients, their perceptions and experiences, based on their relationship with the disease and coping strategies, given that the specificities of this type of treatment originate a complex process, followed by contradictions and ambiguities. The interviewees, who were aged between 18 and 70 years and had been on this treatment over a year, revealed having lives marked by the disease experience and statements which make hemodialysis to be construed as a liminality space. The study, grounded on the anthropological theory, and some of the reports by the 117 interviewees developed the interpretation that every patient with chronic kidney disease who