A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF MEDICAL THOUGHT: AN EVALUATION OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PHILOSOPHICAL AND MEDICAL KNOWLEGDE, UNDER THE EXAMINATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL ANALOGY / UM OLHAR FILOSÓFICO SOBRE O PENSAMENTO MÉDICO: UMA AVALIAÇÃO DA INTERAÇÃO ENTRE OS SABERES FILOSÓFICO E MÉDICO, SOB O ENFOQUE DO DESENVOLVIMENTO DA ANALOGIA MÉDICA

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2004

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In this Thesis, using the light of the philosophical prism, we undertake an examination embracing medical philosophical thought beginning in antiquity, continuing up until the Therapeutic Revolution. Our view contemplates: in antiquity, a time during which there was a strict collaboration between Philosophy and Medicine, based upon mutual research of the etiological aspects of disease not only of the soul but also of the body; it was the time of the birth and apogee of the Medical Analogy; during the Middle Ages it was possible to identify that the Medical Analogy had entered a state of hibernation in the twelfth century, followed by a slight awakening in the thirteenth century, returning to a state of sleep, with the final awakening occurring in the fifteenth century; during the Renaissance it captured a return to the medical texts and the fall of traditional Galenic knowledge; finally during the Modern era we have diagnosed the initial phases of a distancing between philosophical and medical knowledge, with a respective weakening of Medical Analogy. Since the Modern era our examination has focused upon the vacillations of medical philosophical knowledge, speculating upon the causes and consequences of this distancing, and our examination found that the legacy left by modern medical thought has oriented and continues to orient Modern Medicine towards a dehumanization in relation to the person of the patient. Finally, we concluded that medical reform is needed, principally, in its Paideia, based upon a closer collaboration with philosophy, with the intent to provide subsidies to help answer the central question of any therapeutic procedure, which is: what is the nature of the being of the human being?

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distancing etiology philosophical and medical knowledge ser do homem ontocentrical anthropology paideia medica te being of the human being distanciamento etiologia antropologia antropocentrica medical paideia medical anology analogia medica saber medico-filosofico antropologia ontocentrica anthropocentrical anthropology

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