Minamata (2020): From Humanistic Photography to Congenital Defects due to Methyl Mercury in the Subject of Human Embryology
Abstract Minamata by Andrew Levitas is an important film to understand how environmental pollution can have a great influence on human health. It shows how pollution affects communities, how communities are reluctant to accept the responsibility of the responsible company, and how the community and the media can work together to address these issues and take action to prevent and treat these problems. In the university teaching of Health Sciences, it constitutes an important pedagogical resource to illustrate and raise awareness about the toxicological problems of methyl mercury in human health and especially during pregnancy, promoting the development of various congenital defects. Viewing the film, on the other hand, stimulates critical, divergent, analytical, reflective, emotional thinking and significant learning, while allowing the integration of knowledge of the subjects they are studying and general culture in an immersive experience. Likewise, it allows to integrate the art of the film and the photography of W. Eugene Smith as an educational transversal that contributes to the heritage of the student's general culture.
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Colorado Nates O. Country Doctor por w. Eugene Smith: la serie completa comentada. Oscar en fotos 2017. https://oscarenfotos.com/2017/01/07/country-doctor-por-w-eugene-smith-la-serie-completa/
Smith WE. Country Doctor. Life Magazine. 1948. http://www.slightly-out-of-focus.com/W_Eugene_Smith_Doctor.html
Jones L. William Eugene Smith and Life Magazine. Aether, 2013. 70. https://www.academia.edu/download/58888162/volume_11.pdf#page=74
Smith WE, Smith AM. Minamata: Words and Photographs. First Edition, New York: Alskog/Holt Rinehart; 1975.
Watanabe C, Satoh H. Evolution of our understanding of methylmercury as a health threat. Environ Health Perspect. 1996; 104 (suppl 2): 367-379. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.96104s2367
Llop S., Ibarlucea J, Sunyer J, Ballester F. Estado actual sobre la exposición alimentaria al mercurio durante el embarazo y la infancia y recomendaciones en salud pública. Gac Sanit. 2013; 27(3): 273-278. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2012.09.002
Hong YS, Kim YM, Lee KE. Methylmercury exposure and health effects. J. Prev. Med. Public Health. 2012. 45(6): 353. https://doi.org/10.3961%2Fjpmph.2012.45.6.353
Díez S. Human Health Effects of Methylmercury Exposure. En: Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Nueva York, NY: Springer; 2008. p. 111–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09647-6_3
Richard E. Guía de Actividades y Trabajos Prácticos de la Cátedra de Embriología Médica. Portoviejo, Ecuador: Universidad San Gregorio de Portoviejo; 2023. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FR7FSLkapsOKQQc1OXR43yUefiqfnrHW/view?usp=share_link
Piscitelli A. Video TV, ergo sum. Cuando la cultura audiovisual también sirve para pensar(se) y hacer pensar. En: Orozco G, editor. TVMorfosis: la televisión abierta hacia una sociedad de redes. México: Universidad de Guadalajara; 2012. p. 98-107
Cambra Badii IC. Pensar el cine. La narrativa de películas y series como matriz metodológica para el tratamiento de problemas complejos. Prometeica. 2018; (17): 62–76. https://doi.org/10.24316/prometeica.v0i17.230
Hidalgo Balsera A, González-García M, González-Rodríguez S, Bordallo-Landa J. En torno al concepto de salud y enfermedad. Un dialogo entre la medicina, la literatura y la filosofía. Rev. Med. Cine. 2022; 18(4): 377–390. https://doi.org/10.14201/rmc.30624
Badiou A. El cine como experimentación filosófica. En: Gerardo Y, editor. Pensar el cine 1: imagen, ética y filosofía. Buenos Aires: Manantial; 2004. p.23-35 https://www.academia.edu/31596238/Badiou_el_cine_como_experimentacion_filosofica
Ferres J. Las pantallas y el cerebro emocional. Barcelona: Gedisa.2014.
Kringelbach ML, Perl YS, Tagliazucchi E, Deco G. Toward naturalistic neuroscience: Mechanisms underlying the flattening of brain hierarchy in movie-watching compared to rest and task. Sci. Adv. 2013; 13;9(2): eade6049. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade6049
Richard, E. (2023). Minamata (2020): From Humanistic Photography to Congenital Defects due to Methyl Mercury in the Subject of Human Embryology. Journal of Medicine and Movies, 19(4), 331–344. https://doi.org/10.14201/rmc.31176
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