Capítulo 5
Qualidade de Vida como indicador de saúde
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John Keating : Gentlemen, open your texts to page 21 of this introduction.
Mr. Perry, will you read the opening paragraph of the preface entitled
"Understanding Poetry"?
Neil : [reading] "Understanding Poetry," by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. "To
fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme and
figures of speech, then ask two questions: One, how artfully has the objective
of the poem been rendered and two, How important is that objective?
Question 1 rates the poem's perfection; question 2 rates its importance. And
once these questions have been answered, determining the poem's
greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. If the poem's score for
perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph and its importance is plotted
on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure
of its greatness. A sonnet by Byron might score high on the vertical but only
average on the horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand,
would score high both horizontally and vertically, yielding a massive total
area, thereby revealing the poem to be truly great. As you proceed through
the poetry in this book, practice this rating method. As your ability to evaluate
poems in this matter grows, so will, so will your enjoyment and understanding
of poetry."
John Keating : Excrement. That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard.
We're not laying pipe. We're talking about poetry. How can you describe
poetry like American Bandstand? "Oh, I like Byron. I give him a 42, but I can't
dance to it." Now, I want you to rip out that page.
DEAD POET'S SOCIETY by Tom Shulman, 1989
Minayo et al. (2000) apontam para uma arqueologia da noção de qualidade
de vida na sua relação com o campo da saúde que remonta a medicina social,
através da noção de condições de vida na Europa do século XIX. Neste sentido,
mais voltada paras as classes trabalhadoras urbanas e para formulação de
políticas públicas e sanitárias.
"No campo da saúde, o discurso da relação entre saúde e
qualidade de vida, embora bastante inespecífico e generalizante,
existe desde o nascimento da medicina social, nos séculos XVIII e