Biomedical subjects

L Montiel

Publications and source records attributed to L Montiel.

16 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1997

[Matter and spirit: the unconscious in Carl Gustav Carus's psychology (1779-1868)].

Carl Gustav Carus, one of the originators of a doctrine centered on the unconscious, is an interesting figure from current viewpoints. The doctrine he espoused was psychological, but in addition, the author sought foundations for his thinking in the biological knowledge of his time. The unconscious that Carus postulated was simultaneously biological, material and psychological in nature. Thus the history of psychism--the history of the soul--was related with the individual's and the species's biological history. From this perspective the unconscious was recognized as an indispensable element of rational thought. This theory, which recalls in many aspects that of C.G. Jung, made possible the medical study of psychic life and the revaluation of unconscious factors of psychism which were usually denigrated by modern anthropologists and moralists.

History, 18th Century↗

PubMed1997

[Philosophy of medical science in German Romanticism: the proposal of Ignaz Döllinger (1770-1841) to study physiology].

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Germany↗

PubMed1996

[The reasons for a fleeting resurrection: the natural historical method in the work of K. W. Stark (1787-1845) and F. Jahn (1804-1859)].

This work analyses the methodological proposals of two German doctors in the first half of the XIX century, traditionally linked to the so-called "Naturalistic School". It aims especially to evaluate the importance given by each to the "Naturalistic method" applied to the classification of these diseases, taking into account the fact that both defended an ontologistic or "parasitic" conception of the same. This study illustrates how this undertaking responds to the challenge, expounded by the followers of Schelling's Naturphilosophie, of converting medicine into a natural science. Likewise, this undertaking was doomed to failure due to the existing contradiction between the utilization to the classificatory method, characteristic of eighteenth century Natural History, and the need for a physiological foundation of nosology, more in accordance with the nascent Biology, which will greatly reduce the epistemological soundness of the concept of morbid species. This very imbalance will be revealed, in the strictly medical aspect, in the doubts when giving epistemological priority to physiology or to the clinical observation.

Germany↗

PubMed1995

The Symbolism of dream (1814) by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert: another link in the Aurea Catena.

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Dreams↗

PubMed1995

[AIDS prophylaxis: Analysis of a strategy].

This study draws attention to some of the problems encountered in developing strategiess for prophylaxis against AIDS. Some approaches have been reconsidered and amended--at least partially--although other potentially important problems remain, such as those arising from the most recent definition of the disease, now considered to be sexually transmitted, and those related with the attitudes of different target audiences of messages encouraging the use of prophylactic measures. This article attempts to highlight the practical consequences of certain theoretical claims about the disease and prophylactic measures.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗

PubMed1995

[Elvira Arquiola Llopis (1947-1995)].

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Historiography↗

PubMed1993

[Speculation and experience in German romantic medicine].

This paper analizes the role attributed to experiment and theory in the philosophical natural writings of Schiller and also how this doctrine was received by some of the leading doctors of the time. The aim of this analysis is to prove that the phisopher's followers did not despise observation, a belief held until not long ago, and to situate the experience within the framework of the doctrine of science rooted in "Naturphilosophie", and, even further, in Kantian thought.

Germany↗

PubMed1993

[Medicine and health in the year 2000. The works from the Stuttgart Conference 1965-1990].

In this study we shall describe the works carried out over a period of twenty five years by a group of experts from the old Federal Republic of Germany. These studies, whose purpose was to identify the trends in medicine for the near future--the every symbolic year 2000--were coordinated by the medical historian Heinrich Schipperges, who played a decisive role in the foundation, and even in the historical orientation of this prospective work. As history illustrates, the limitations and risks of the present models of health and medicine are very pronounced. The concept of utopian medicine, whose historical reality is highlighted by bibliographical and field research, constitutes the hub around which the symptoms of the disease from which the welfare society is suffering, revolve.

Congresses as Topic↗

PubMed1993

[The benefits and risks of a new value: the "health" value in the post-industrial society].

The means to improve the health of individuals and communities has risen exponentially throughout the twentieth century, which essentially has had specific repercussions in the developed world. However, it is precisely in these countries that there exists, more persistently, a dissatisfaction with the present standard of health. This may be due to the high value placed on health in our culture, but also to the unfortunate or simply illintentioned use of a view which relates health and well-being, chanelling the expectations of the citizens towards hedonism. Moreover, this view does not only exist in societies which aspire to set up the model of the Welfare State. Furthermore, the insistence on prevention, and especially individual prevention--an insistence based principally on economic reasons--, related to the frustration of hedonistic expectations with regard to health, seems to have led, paradoxically, to rise of a valetudinarian society.

Developing Countries↗

PubMed1993