These are interesting articles with varied themes related to Slow Medicine and have been published in various parts of the world.
By José Carlos Campos Velho Originally published on September 2022: Slow Medicine Brasil The Italian Association of Slow Medicine has launched, on the occasion of its foundation, the Slow Medicine Manifesto, which proposes a form of medicine that is sober, respectful and fair to people. This kind of medicine is sober because doing more doesn’t mean doing…
By André Islabão Originally published on October 2021: André Islabão 2021 A slow philosophy is increasingly a necessity in our world. The movement that started as Slow Food now has variants like Slow School, Slow Travel, Slow Cities and Slow Money, just to name a few. The benefits of this slow philosophy for medicine are becoming more and more evident, and…
By Dennis McCullough and Jacqueline C. Wootton Originally published on November 2008: Dennis McCullough 2008 This mild-mannered, gentle book belies a steely and radical approach to medicine. On the one hand, it is a consumer book full of practical advice and wisdom on the best way to care for aging parents in their final stages of…
By Jaqueline Doring Rodrigues Originally published on October 2018: https://www.slowmedicine.com.br/medicina-baseada-em-empatia-vendo-atraves-do-olhar-do-outro/ “ To be empathetic is to see the world through the other person’s eyes and not see our world reflected in their eyes.” (Carl Rogers) Empathy has the power to transform human relationships. It can also potentially increase the effectiveness of therapeutic approaches in the health…
By Ana Coradazzi Originally published on April 2020: https://www.slowmedicine.com.br/o-gosto-amargo-das-framboesas/ “You know all about that possible bitter future. You also know that you could no longer turn back, that you are entirely subdued, and your words, whatever they may be, will never be wise enough to determine that this door to be opened now, right after…
By Patrick Alexander Wachholz and José Carlos Campos Velho Originally published on July 2021: Slow medicine: a philosophical conception for a humanized geriatric practice Abstract Expansion of the concept of health, care fragmentation, and technology overvaluation have fostered discussions about the limitations of the biomedical model. The post-COVID-19 era can be one of the largest…
By Marco Bobbio Originally published on August 2018: https://www.slowmedicine.com.br/avoiding-haste-in-clinical-cardiology/ The well-educated professor Alberto Dolara, the one who first wrote an article using the term Slow medicine, starts his new paper on haste in medicine quoting the Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. The poet synthetically expresses the negative effect of haste on every human action; even…
By Marco Bobbio Originally published on January 2018: https://www.slowmedicine.it/intervista-a-victoria-sweet/ Last October, the latest book by Victoria Sweet, author of God’s Hotel – a doctor, a hospital and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine (2012), was published. In that book the author had foreseen the birth of a Slow Medicine, an unhurried medicine in which the doctor…