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The aim of the present study is to discuss different social judgments about the growing use of sex hormones, a practice that is increasingly common in Brazil and worldwide. There has been a rapid expansion of clinical indications for the use of sex hormones in different circumstances, such as aging, beauty purposes and improvement of physical and sexual performance. These technological innovations are disseminated by the media enthusiastically. Paradoxically, there is some reserve regarding the use of emergency contraception by young women. Despite the popularization of scientific knowledge of sex hormones as a tool to improve some physical human aspects, the diffusion and use of emergency contraception, which was approved twenty years ago with precise clinical indications, remain marginal and

Abstract GOMES, Doris e FINKLER, Mirelle The relationship between specialized and technical work: the case of orthodontics from the perspective of amplified clinical bioethics. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.67, pp.1111-1122. Epub 05-Abr-2018. ISSN 1414-3283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-57622017.0206. In the reorganization of the oral health field, the transition to team relationships is an ethical-political challenge. This is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study, and gathered data through semi-structured interviews with 11 orthodontists who were examined through discursive analysis. The results disclosed ethical problems, such as the ideology of professionalism, confusion of competences with technical work, and hierarchy in opposition to the construction of leadership. Amplified clinical bioethics revealed a tendency to stick to traditional knowledge and procedures.

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