The Promotion of Human Rights Under the Perspective of Ethics and Otherness: A Music Therapeutic Listening for Children with Cancer

Abstract

We present some contributions of music therapy in the rescue of children with cancer to experience situations specific to a healthy child development, during his stay in the hospital waiting room. Despite of several International Human Rights Declarations, the society is still far to reach all rights equally. Otherness, respect for difference and rights insure to all the people present challenging strategies, and practices and social representations are developed in orders to maintain this differentiation. In a hospital cancer can be found different circumstance that make affected by cancer children experience exclusion situations in environments, outside the hospital setting. Thus, music therapy may contribute to the improvement, restoration or maintenance of physical and psychosocial health of children, enhancing the healthy aspects and appreciating what child brings to their reality within the music therapy context. This valorization is what gives the opening and recognition of someone else, favoring the expression of the uniqueness of each person. It is this recognition that promotes human rights in this "other ", and in this particular case, of child being.