[Harm reduction as a strategy to slow care].

Abstract

This article deals with the relationship between time, in health care, and the society where it takes place. Care as a clinic committed to the integrality of the health-disease process and to the autonomy of the subjects, which takes place in the intercessory encounters. It deals with two dimensions of care time: the chronos or duration between two events, which guides health interventions with deadlines and goals to control the results; and the aiôn temporality of events. Such dimensions are examined in the society of performance or weariness, and the possibility of privileging interruptions, the contemplative "not doing" and the temporal in-between. Based on the propositions of a social movement and a verbal neologism, "slow care" is proposed as the construction of strategies for managing either the various chronological times that cross the health care, and the opening of oneself to events and the interferences they produce, as resonances, subtleties, small changes (aiôn). Finally, harm reduction is pointed out as a strategy of slow care.