Towards a phenomenology of disease
Modern medicine has given a marginal and passive character to the body and, therefore, has relegated it to absence. In this perspective, human beings are made of an organic reality that becomes a thing, another object of nature that can be controlled. In the same way as everything temporary and peri...
- Autores:
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Estrada Mesa, Diego Alejandro
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2023
- Institución:
- Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UCC
- Idioma:
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/49724
- Acceso en línea:
- https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84864465463&partnerID=40&md5=e8b4a5d2bd5a09d9c89bff2738e743a2
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/49724
- Palabra clave:
- ARTICLE
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
MEDICINE
PHENOMENOLOGY
PHENOMENOLOGY OF DISEASE
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
| Summary: | Modern medicine has given a marginal and passive character to the body and, therefore, has relegated it to absence. In this perspective, human beings are made of an organic reality that becomes a thing, another object of nature that can be controlled. In the same way as everything temporary and perishable, the body is despised. Attempts to prolong life, to escape from death are an indication of the eagerness to maintain the body within artificial indicators of normality. To make a phenomenology of disease involves taking into account the matters of the body. Through phenomenology, it is possible to verify an issue that was essential in the ancient world, namely: that human beings are mortal; consequently, it is necessary that they take care of themselves, that they cultivate themselves, that they look for a true cure. |
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