Memories of care involving sick children and their mothers at the Fernandes Figueira Institute (Instituto Fernandes Figueira) are retrieved. The analysis using a generational perspective reveals the institute as a space of experiences and memories. Three sources of memories are analysed: (1) the research by Marismary Horsth De Seta with the generation that reached the institute in the 1940s; (2) the institute's 1973 activity report; (3) three interviews with workers admitted in the 1980s.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong-term hospitalizations of children and adolescents with complex chronic health conditions imply many restrictions to common childhood experiences. Many of them are born, grow up, and even die in the hospital without ever having known their homes. The care experience of this group was triggered by a narrative investigation.
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