O cotidiano dos funcionários de um instituto médico legal frente à morte: uma leitura a partir da bioética personalista / The daily routine of Forensics Workers towards Death: a personalistic bioethics view

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2009

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This is a qualitative research that aimed to understand the experience of workers in the universe of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Londrina-PR. The three objectives were to analyze the experiences of these workers with death, identify the challenges sprung from this work and their perceptions about humanization in their daily work process at the work environment. The Personalistic Bioethics theoretical reference was used. Semi-structured interviews were chosen for data collection. The interviews saturation was reached by the participation of 12 Institute of Forensic Medicine workers, representing all functional sectors. The interviews were conducted from April 2008 to March 2009. The Bardin Content Analysis was used to build empirical categories. By following a conceptual ordering, this analysis led to three thematic categories: (1): the object of work at the Institute of Forensic Medicine; (2) the Institute of Forensic Medicine workers experience with death and; (3) the daily routine in the work process at the Institute of Forensic Medicine. These three categories approach the work process of the Institute of Forensic Medicine workers in Londrina, whose work activities are interdisciplinary. These activities include forensic procedures in corpses, the representation of the corpse as object of work and the feelings expressed by the workers in action. The corpse, as object of work, was acknowledged as a person in a quiet body, the result of choices made in life and as a member of a family. The corpse family was also acknowledged as object of work, regarding reception and acceptance that this family needs in this moment of abrupt death, considering their different reactions towards it. The second category approaches the perceptions about death as a fact; its meanings grouped in the biological, religious and philosophical dimensions; and the feelings experienced towards the end of life. The third category regards the characteristics of forensic work process and the feelings towards this activity. These characteristics include the legal aspects, the social unrecognition, the media repercussion, the ignorance about the final result, the unexpected and peculiar situations, the team work and the work load. Among the feelings there are sadness, compassion, pain, fear, surprise, exhaustion, impotence, professional accomplishment and the recalling as a human being. In this work there were challenges regarding people as human beings and as technical workers, while conducting forensic work in victims or receptioning family members, during the moment of death. The results of this study highlight that the Institute of Forensic Medicine workers are impelled to regain their beliefs and values as people, since they define death, remember their experiences, work as a team, relate to the corpse and to its family members.

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forensic medicine bioética bioethics atitude frente à morte cadaver attitude to death cadáver medicina legal

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