CONTRIBUTIONS TO A HEALTH WRITING POLICY: THE CARTOGRAPHIC DIARY AS A RESEARCH TOOL

Abstract

This essay is a refection from some health research experiences with a cartographic approach and feld diary records. More than a mere recording instrument, the cartographic diary is an empirical multi-media, multi-lingual, multi-voice and, especially, multi-time, collective narrative of affectivity, a singular and collective tool produced at the meeting. To register a cartographic research is to enter a temporal dimension, an intuitive action that updates the past because it is written "from within" the meetings, and includes the subjects' voices. In cartography, the presence of the narrator in the text is not a bias, but a condition, with different modes of entry, narrative co-authorship or views from the points of view. Any variation of any of the three main discursive modes is used to cite the other: direct speech, indirect or free indirect, but especially the later, because it allows maximum speech interference.