Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference

JESUS, L.C. Religious and spiritual coping among nursing professionals who work in emergency units. 2011. 83p. Dissertation (MA) – Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 2011. Researches published in the area of spiritual/religious coping (SRC) still not addressed this issue related to nursing professionals who are submitted to different stress factors arising not only from their work practice, but also from their everyday life outside the workplace. This study aimed to verify if nursing staff (assistants, technicians and nurses) uses the spiritual/religious coping to deal with the stress factors experienced both at work and in private life. It is a cross-sectional, descriptive, and quantitative study in which all nurses of the Emergency Unit of the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto Medical School were invited to participate, obtaining a sample of 126 participants who were given an envelope containing a free consent form, the General Questionnaire, and the Spiritual Religious Coping Scale (SRCOPE Scale), which were completely filled out by the participants out of the workplace and then returned to the researcher. The results showed that the SRC average was 3.66, the positive SRC average was 3.11, the negative SRC average was 1.78, and that women make more use of positive spiritual/religious coping than men. Regarding the situation of stress mentioned by the participants, it was found that the majority reported having experienced a stressful situation in the family setting (61.1%); 25.4% reported having experienced a stressful situation in the workplace; 2.4% reported having experienced stressful situations in both environments; and 10.3% reported not having experienced any stressful situation during the period of the study. Only 0.8% of the participants did not answer the questions. The results obtained through the index of the SRC Scale were expected in view of the religiosity of the Brazilian people, especially the religiosity of Brazilian women, however, it was not seen the impact of the use of spiritual/religious coping for the health of this professional category, which warrants further studies, particularly with respect to the impact of the use of negative dimension of the SRC, which, although it was rarely used by the participants in this study, it is an important information that can affect the health of those who make its use, leaving it to future researchers in this area also investigate possible ways to work to achieve the promotion of the spiritual dimension of nursing professionals.

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Universidade de são paulo escola de enfermagem de ribeirão preto

Revisao de uma linha de pesquisa no campo das ciencias sociais em saude no Brasil que se centra na hipotese metodologica de uma diferenca cultural fundamental entre os modelos relacionais de "pessoa" e o modelo do "individuo" ocidental moderno (pensado como livre, autonomo e igual). Essa diferenca cultural e de particular importância na caracterizacao das formas diferenciais de experiencia da saude e da doenca entre as classes populares das sociedades nacionais modernas e os segmentos portadores dos saberes biomedicos eruditos, dominantes e oficiais. Estes ultimos tem um compromisso originario com algumas caracteristicas da ideologia do individualismo, tais como o universalismo/racionalismo e o cientificismo/fisicalismo. As representacoes, praticas e instituicoes dela dependentes ocupam um espaco de oposicao a forma integrada, relacional, holista, como sao pensadas e experimentadas as "doencas" (ou, como prefiro, as "perturbacoes fisico-morais") mesmo nos segmentos "individualizados", quanto mais nos segmentos regidos por representacoes hierarquicas, relacionais, de "pessoa". Apresentam-se os fundamentos antropologicos dessa perspectiva analitica e as diferentes dimensoes da producao academica a ela associada, em comparacao com as de outras tendencias do campo.

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Indivíduo e pessoa na experiência da saúde e da doença

In the first half of the twentieth century, developmental biology and genetics were separate disciplines. The word epigenetics was coined by Waddington to link the two fields. Epigenetics could be broadly defined as the sum of all those mechanisms necessary for the unfolding of the genetic programme for development. Several decades later specific mechanisms were proposed in which information was superimposed on DNA sequences. In particular, it was suggested that 5-methyl cytosine had a role in controlling gene expression, and also that the pattern of methylation was heritable. These predictions are now supported by a large body of evidence which shows that methylation is strongly associated with gene silencing in a variety of biological contexts. There are now also many examples of epigenetic inheritance through the germ line There are several other important epigenetic mechanisms involving chromatin and histone modifications, and also the expanding field of regulatory RNAs. The human epigenome project will unravel the pattern of DNA methylation in different tissues, and will this determine whether the regulation of gene expression is at the level of DNA or chromatin, or both.

Epigenetics: a historical overview

A cultura ocidental moderna articula-se em torno da tensao entre um universalismo primordial e o seu constante contraponto romântico. O espirito cientifico e uma das manifestacoes fundamentais da disposicao universalista, tendo cabido ao espirito romântico critica-lo e modula-lo em sentidos e direcoes inicialmente insuspeitados. A emergencia das "ciencias humanas" (originalmente concebidas sob a forma das Geisteswissenschaften ou "ciencias do espirito") foi um dos resultados dessa tensao, impondo uma concepcao de realidade e de conhecimento muito diferente da que tinha prevalecido na orientacao universalista originaria. Os temas da "diferenca", da "totalidade", da "singularidade", do "fluxo", da "pulsao", da "experiencia" e da "compreensao" instigaram ou desafiaram todos os grandes pais fundadores das ciencias humanas - com resultados muito diversos - e continuam a operar na dinâmica do campo, seja como argumento instaurador de toda pesquisa antropologica, seja como veiculo das especulacoes ditas "pos-modernas". O presente artigo trata da sua explicitacao e esclarecimento.

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A pulsão romântica e as ciências humanas no ocidente

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Doença, sofrimento, perturbação: perspectivas etnográficas

Trata-se de um levantamento, revisao e analise da ampla literatura norte-americana articulada em torno do campo da Antropologia Medica que se tem dedicado a questao dos nervos, do nervoso ou do ataque de nervos nas ultimas decadas. Procura-se apresentar o quadro dos pressupostos analiticos que ordenam as classificacoes prevalecentes nesse campo, esclarecendo assim nao apenas a etnografia comparada do fenomeno dos nervos, mas tambem a propria estruturacao conceituai da Antropologia Medica. Enfatiza-se os riscos dos reducionismos pela dominacao/poder e pela dominacao/genero na necessaria argumentacao critica contra os paradigmas biome-dicos e sua leitura da "doenca dos nervos". Argumenta-se por um conhecimento mais acurado da historia desse fenomeno e pela sua contextualizacao no quadro dos demais modelos de pessoa e perturbacao fisico-moral correntes na cultura ocidental moderna. Procede-se a recuperacao dos pontos centrais de contribuicao da etnografia produzidos nesse campo para o conhecimento comparado dos nervos, aproximando-o das literaturas brasileira e europeia a esse respeito.

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Os nervos e a antropologia médica norte-americana: uma revisão crítica

The role of psychoanalysis in Brazil both as a knowledge and as an institution has changed considerably since the end of the 1970s, when its prestige in the social and cultural life of the country had reached its acme Several recent analyses describe a growingly decentralized, diversified and complex situation; alongside a proliferation of religious and para-religious resources That process was more obviously connected to the New Age movements, considered as typical of middle-classes, as a variant of psychological culture The recent growth of Pentecostal sects, mostly in the lower classes, seemed to obey to other cultural premises Yet, more recently, the emergence of an intense dialogue between Protestantism and Pentecostalism, on one side, and psychoanalysis, on the other, claimed for new research investment Here, the research by Carvalho on that specific topic and the work by Duarte on the dynamics of religious and lay cosmologies in contemporary Brazil allow for a new integrated interpretation

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Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte

Papers

Indivíduo e pessoa na experiência da saúde e da doença

A pulsão romântica e as ciências humanas no ocidente

Doença, sofrimento, perturbação: perspectivas etnográficas

Os nervos e a antropologia médica norte-americana: uma revisão crítica

Religião e psicanálise no Brasil contemporâneo: novas e velhas Weltanschauungen