Nursing Genetics and Genomics Education in Indonesia: Philosophy and Ethics Study (a Hermeneutics Approach)

This study was conducted to provide a philosophical and ethical description of the development of genetics and genomics nursing science and the importance of its incorporation into nursing education in Indonesia. Researchers have adopted five of the seven steps of the Heideggerian hermeneutics. All data has been obtained from literature research. The qualitative analysis of secondary data has applied the data analysis. The Coherence theory of truth criteria has been applied to maintain the consistency of scientific truth. The consistent statement system has used the principle of logic as a guide to interpreting the facts and opinions of others adequately. Nursing genetics and genomics is an ethical, philosophical product of nursing science development and a new scope of science as an adaptation to global health issues. The areas of science in nursing need to be developed further by placing genetics and genomics issues that can be adapted into the curriculum of the nursing higher education curriculum in Indonesia. Keywords: Education; Ethics; Genetics; Genomics; Philosophy

A hermenêutica heideggeriana na pesquisa em clínica

Resumo: O trabalho é um ensaio teórico fruto da tese de doutorado da autora e tem como objetivo pensar a hermenêutica heideggeriana como método na pesquisa em clínica. Para essa perspectiva, os fenômenos somente são vistos na própria existência e em sua sedimentação histórica fática, enquanto método refere-se a um caminho para o desencobrimento dos fenômenos via círculo hermenêutico. Desse modo, tanto a clínica quanto a pesquisa buscam destecer a trama existencial à qual o homem encontra-se aprisionado, acompanhando o próprio movimento da existência. A hermenêutica heideggeriana mostra-se de grande importância para as pesquisas clínicas, na medida em que não busca uma verdade universal, e, sim, compreensões acerca dos fenômenos, as quais não podem ser representadas, apenas acompanhadas e desveladas.Palavras-chave: Hermenêutica Heideggeriana; Pesquisa em Clínica; Clínica Fenomenológico-Existencial. Heideggerian hermeneutics in clinical researchAbstract: This work is a theoretical essay from the author's doctoral thesis, whose aim to think the Heideggerian hermeneutics like a method in the clinical research. According to this perspective, phenomena are only seen in the very existence and its historical horizon. And method refers to a path to uncover the phenomena via the hermeneutical circle. In this way, both clinic and research seek to unweave the existential plot which man is imprisoned following the very movement of existence. The Heideggerian hermeneutics it is of great importance for clinical research, in that it does not seek an universal truth but rather understandings about phenomena; and these, as understandings, can not be represented, only accompanied and unveiled.Keywords: Heideggerian Hermeneutics; Clinical Research; Phenomenological-Existential Clinic.

Hermeneutic Uncertainty and Prejudice

Hermeneutic uncertainty is an inherent part of the art of translation, and its consequences are ineluctable features of translation products. In this article I support the claim that the teaching and practice of translation do not escape the social responsibility which resides in clearly declaring and acknowledging the existence of hermeneutic uncertainty. Investigating how Heideggerian hermeneutics led to Gadamer’s development of the concept of hermeneutic prejudice. I will show that the philosophical description of how this prejudice functions can be a useful part of the pedagogical materials presented by translation teachers, and can help students to approach ambiguous or difficult source text elements more confidently. Such hermeneutic consciousness-raising can also be applied to published translations, where it can be tested to reveal how translators have dealt with specific instances of hermeneutic uncertainty. The case studied here is a pair of terms occurring in Walter Benjamin’s Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers, chosen mainly for its ubiquitous presence in the field of translation studies. The story of how French and English translations differ in their understanding of this specific hermeneutic difficulty will be used to investigate the extent to which translators acknowledge (or ignore) the existence of hermeneutic uncertainty by allowing it to enter their translations or by discarding it from them.

Historicity and historiography of being-a-nursing- student in the construction of care in Heidegger

Objective: Reveal the experience of being-a-nursing-student as it relates to care. Method: Phenomenological qualitative research. Data were collected in March and May, 2011 by interviewing seven nursing students at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The interviews were analyzed using heideggerian hermeneutics in three steps: Pre-comprehension, comprehension, and the interpretation of the participants’ responses. Results: Reflecting on the historiographical context of being-a-nursing-student, the respondents realized that they are immersed in the family context throughout their career, and described their experiences as temporal discoveries in their life. By unveiling their historicity in the phenomenon of care, the students were able to recognize themselves in this process, interacting with each other and with the practical situations in which moments of care were required. This process has made it possible to conceive a vision of care from their past experience. Conclusion: To nursing students, one concept of care involves reflecting continuously on oneself and on the other.

O fim da filosofia na modernidade com o surgimento da hermenêutica heideggeriana/The end of philosophy in modernity with the rise of heideggerian hermeneutics

Para Heidegger, a filosofia até então fora metafísica e enquanto tal chega a seu acabamento na era tecnológica, ou seja, a modernidade atinge seu auge com a inauguração da autonomia das ciências particulares pela linguagem cibernética. O filósofo chama a atenção para um pensamento capaz de pensar além da metafisica e da essência da técnica (gestell) que tem dominado a compreensão do habitar humano no mundo. Redescobrir um pensar que não seja nem metafísico nem técnico é o que Heidegger chama de a tarefa do pensamento. Vejamos que tanto a metafísica quanto a técnica estão acentuadas em um mesmo fundamento, consequentemente em uma mesma noção de verdade, a verdade enquanto concordância, enunciativa e enquanto ente. Nesta concepção de verdade também a filosofia habita enquanto metafísica, por isso na tarefa do pensamento a filosofia deve superar-se e buscar uma nova compreensão para o que é verdadeiro, deve ir às origens do pensamento grego e resgatar o significado de alétheia, desvelamento. Pensar é desvelar o que está velado. A tarefa do pensamento passa a ser encaminhada à hermenêutica, não por mera arbitrariedade, mas sim pela própria necessidade de se pensar originariamente. Só a hermenêutica pode ainda pensar o que é digno de ser pensado, o que ainda não foi alcançado pelo pensamento metafísico e pelo enquadramento técnico que move a habitação do homem no mundo, pois é a abertura que possibilita todo apresentar-se, essa abertura é a clareira do Ser.Abstract: For Heidegger philosophy had been hitherto metaphysics and it reaches its finishing process in the technological era, i.e., modernity reaches its peak with the unveiling of the autonomy of the special sciences through cyber language. The philosopher draws attention to a thought able of thinking beyond metaphysics and the essence of the technique (Gestell) that has dominated the understanding of human dwelling in the world. Rediscover a thinking that is neither metaphysical nor technique is what Heidegger calls the task of thought. Considering that both metaphysics and technique are pronounced in the same basis, thus in the same notion of truth, the truth as agreement, expository and as beings. In this conception of truth philosophy inhabits as metaphysical as well as. For this reason, in the task of thought, philosophy should surpass itself and seek a new understanding for what is true, it shall go to the origins of Greek thought and redeem the meaning of aletheia, unveiling. Thinking is to unveil what is veiled. The task of thought becomes forwarded to hermeneutics, not for mere arbitrariness, rather for the need of thinking originally. Only hermeneutics might still think what is worthy of being thought, what has not yet been reached by metaphysical thought and by the technical framework that moves the habitation of man in the world, then it is the opening that allows all “coming forwards”, this opening is the clearing of Being. Keywords: Philosophy. Metaphysics. Technique. Hermeneutics. Modernity.

The authenticity of the being nursing-professor in the nursing care teaching practice: a Heideggerian hermeneutics

This qualitative study aimed to unveil the authenticity of the being nurse-professor in the nursing care teaching practice. The study applied the theoretical-methodological framework of Heideggerian hermeneutics. The strategy used to capture meaning was the phenomenological interview carried out with 11 professors. The organization and analysis of data allowed for the unfolding of the authenticity of the being nurse-professor, revealing that both are authentic in their professional careers and, as such, teach and learn in a different way. This feature makes a difference in the nursing care teaching practice. When led to states of anguish, they seek to follow other roads in order to ratify their responsibility in the care teaching process. Through their freedom to choose their paths, they are made unique beings and thus reveal their authentic existence.

What Keeps Nurses in Nursing?

Interpretive phenomenology was used in this study to explore what keeps nurses in nursing by examining the impact of the relational experience of the nurse caring for the nursed in the context of the nursing situation. Eight practicing nurses were interviewed about what keeps them in nursing. Data were analyzed using Heideggerian hermeneutics and the theoretical framework of Boykin and Schoenhofer’s nursing as caring theory. Four themes, practicing from inner core beliefs, understanding the other from within, making a difference, and nursing as an evolving process, supported one constitutive pattern, intentional compassion energy, revealing that nurses intend to care compassionately.