Body and medicine: a meeting of (im) possible?
Report of an extension course
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1679-9836.v97i4p415-421Keywords:
Human body, Medicine, Training courses, Documentaries and factual films, Motion pictures, Mediicne in the arts/history, Community-institutional relationsAbstract
This article discusses a extension course taught at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, which sought to articulate the theme of the body and biomedicine through the documentary film support. It is proposed a reflection on the subject of the body in the field of biomedicine from selected documentaries, which focused on themes considered central in this context as teaching anatomy, eugenics, ethics and the history of HeLa cells, state action in the face of leprosy, scientific journeys of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (or the man from the Sertão and Chagas’ disease) and reproductive technology, market and commercialization of cells and body parts. Extension activity is understood as a crucial practice in the university and the inseparability between research, teaching and extension.