Narrativas médicas do medo: do coração ao cérebro / Medical Narratives of fear: from heart to brain

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

19/03/2012

RESUMO

From irritable heart syndrome, through the various syndromes of the fin de siècle and the coming triumph of neuroscientific theories about the brain centers of the hypersensitivity response to the alarm and suffocation, Medicine sought for theories to explain the experience of terror. This essay examines the way it occurred throughout history the transformation of medical concern on fear and several emotional states that come with it. By searching the medical literature on scientific analysis traces of the intense discomfort related to fear, from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, we did not intend to build a triumphalist history, so that current theories could gain status of superiority in relation to the previous ones. Instead of it, the cultural and historical force of each theory was evidenced, emphasizing the possible continuities and disruptions in the meanings that they assumed.

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história do medo transtorno do pânico transtorno de estresse pós-traumático saude coletiva history of fear panic disorder post-traumatic stress disorder

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