Acta Med Port. 2024 Sep 2;37(9):671-672. doi: 10.20344/amp.21838. Epub 2024 Sep 2.NO ABSTRACTPMID:39226555 | DOI:10.20344/amp.21838
Origen: Palliative Care in Portugal: Are we "Choosing Wisely"? – PubMed

Lit Med. 2024;42(1):137-156. doi: 10.1353/lm.2024.a935837.ABSTRACTIn the novels An Ideal Presence (2020) by Eduardo Berti and La maternité [Maternity] (2012) by Mathieu Simonet, relatives of the dying and palliative care professionals are given a voice. Their experiences highlight «holes» in the cloak of care, which can never protect the terminally ill completely. However, they also raise the question of a pallium for the carers themselves. This need of protection, expressed in both novels by a concern to find the right dosage between caring presence for the terminally ill and self-caring distance from their suffering, risks clashing with the low-tech, high-touch approach…
Origen: Holes in the Protective Cloak of Palliative Care: Mathieu Simonet's <em>La maternité</em> and Eduardo Berti's <em>An Ideal Presence</em> – PubMed

Lit Med. 2024;42(1):174-196. doi: 10.1353/lm.2024.a935839.ABSTRACTPhilippe Forest’s first autofictional novel, L’Enfant éternel (The eternal child), centers on the terminal illness and eventual death of the author’s daughter, Pauline. While scholarly attention has been directed toward the role of the text in caring for the child, this essay addresses the absence of care for Pauline’s parents and their marginalization throughout her end-of-life hospitalization. Focusing on questions of genre, agency, and legacy, I argue that the text allows for a rewriting of the previous, negative experience of care in a way that incorporates the father into care provision. This corrective rewriting understands literature…
Origen: A Practice of Literary Palliation: Philippe Forest's <em>L'Enfant éternel</em> – PubMed

Lit Med. 2024;42(1):197-214. doi: 10.1353/lm.2024.a935840.ABSTRACTThis article explores the representation of terminal brain cancer in Marion Coutts’s memoir The Iceberg (2014), on her husband’s illness and death, and Marco Peano’s autofiction L’invenzione della madre (The invention of the mother; 2015), about a son who cares for his mother during her final days. While addressing the medicalization of dying and the efficacy of palliative care, both texts engage pervasively with visual culture. This emphasis on the visual arts and cinema provides a thought-provoking commentary on the protagonists’ experience of witnessing the gradual erosion of verbal expression in their dying loved ones. This…
Origen: Palliative Images in Marion Coutts's <em>The Iceberg</em> and Marco Peano's <em>L'invenzione della madre</em> – PubMed

Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Sep 1;102(9):626-627. doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.020924.ABSTRACTAs an increasing number of jurisdictions legalize assisted dying, attention is focusing on palliative care clinicians’ role in service delivery. Gary Humphreys reports.PMID:39219763 | PMC:PMC11362692 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.24.020924
Origen: Helping people to die – PubMed