Scielo RSS <![CDATA[Humanidades Médicas]]> http://scielo.sld.cu/rss.php?pid=1727-812020030001&lang=es vol. 3 num. 1 lang. es <![CDATA[SciELO Logo]]> http://scielo.sld.cu/img/en/fbpelogp.gif http://scielo.sld.cu <![CDATA[<b>Salud Sexual y Reproductiva en Estudiantes Universitarios. ¿Modo y Estilo de Vida Saludables?, Un diagnóstico</b>]]> http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-81202003000100001&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es Los autores realizan en el marco del proyecto “Universidad por la Salud”, un diagnóstico sobre Salud Sexual y Reproductiva en la población Universitaria del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Camaguey, abordan importantes problemas: embarazo y adolescencia, información veraz y oportuna, infecciones de trasmisión sexual, entre otros, que afectan a los adolescentes. Parten del análisis de la problemática internacional, regional y local esclareciendo las particularidades de los sistemas de Salud y Educación Cubanos. Se demuestra el conocimiento insuficiente, la presencia de actitudes y prácticas inadecuadas sobre salud sexual y reproductiva en los estudiantes Se evidencia la necesidad de realizar un estudio de intervención con el objetivo de elevar la calidad de vida de la comunidad universitaria<hr/>The authors carry out a diagnosis about Sexual and Reproductive Health as a task of the project “University for Health” in the University population of the Medicine School in Camagüey. They approach important problems: pregnancy and adolescence, veracious and opportune information, sexually transmitted infections, among others that affect adolescents. They take into consideration the international, regional and local contexts, clarifying the particularities of the Cuban Health and Education systems. The insufficient knowledge, the presence of inadequate attitudes and social practices towards sexual and reproductive health by the students is demonstrated, as well as the necessity of carrying out an intervention study with the objective of elevating the quality of life of the university community <![CDATA[<b>Los retos de la tecnociencia y algunas contradicciones del saber médico contemporáneo</b>]]> http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-81202003000100002&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es En el presente artículo se valoran algunas contradicciones que revelan la importancia de la comprensión de la tecnociencia en el estudio de la medicina. En particular se enfatiza en la necesidad de superar la visión reduccionista que interpreta a la tecnología médica, sólo en su comprensión artefactual, separada del conocimiento médico. Proponiendo la necesidad de ampliar esta imagen de la ciencia hacia el conocimiento de la tecnociencia. Se detallan brevemente algunos momentos en el desarrollo histórico de las técnicas y tecnologías médicas. Se resumen algunas ideas de Carl Mitcham sobre la filosofía de la tecnología en medicina donde se evalúan a las tecnologías médicas no sólo como artefactos, sino también como conocimientos, actividad humana, y voluntad. Todo lo que conduce a la necesidad de reflexionar sobre los problemas de naturaleza ética, filosófica, sociológica, e histórica presentes en estos análisis. Finalmente se puntualizan algunos aspectos que la perspectiva sobre estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología pueden aportar: Los problemas relacionados con la deshumanización o despersonalización dentro de las prácticas médicas no deben ser explicados, como lo hacen ciertas imágenes heredadas de las tecnologías médicas, a partir de responsabilizarlas a ellas de estas dificultades. Son los imperativos de reinterpretar el discurso tecnocientífico contemporáneo los que pueden ayudar a despertar el interés ético dentro de los profesionales de la salud, para que estos fenómenos no se presenten en su práctica diaria. Estas consideraciones son de interés para la medicina cubana, siendo sus servicios y acceso sociales, resulta una emergencia del desenvolvimiento de su práctica de avanzada responder a las siguientes interrogantes, ¿conocen nuestros profesionales dedicados a la atención de salud que se mueven en los marcos de la tecnociencia?<hr/>In this article some contradictions that reveal the importance of the understanding of technoscience in the study of medicine are evaluated. It is particularly emphasized the necessity of overcoming the minimalist approach that interprets medical technology taking into consideration only its artifactual understanding, separated from medical knowledge. It propounds the necessity to widen this image of science to the knowledge of technoscience. Important moments in the historical development of medical techniques and technologies are briefly presented. Carl Mitcham 's ideas on the philosophy of technology in medicine, valuating them not only as artifacts, but also as knowledge, human activity, and will, are summarized. All that has been mentioned leads to the necessity of meditating on the problems of ethical, philosophical, sociological, and historical nature introduced in these analyses. Finally, innovative aspects that the social studies of science and technology can display are remarked <![CDATA[<b>Implicaciones éticas de la transgénesis y la clonación</b>]]> http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-81202003000100003&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es La biotecnología, aunque tan antigua como la invención del vino y la fermentación de la cerveza por el hombre, tiene en los años 60 del siglo XX, un importante despegue con las técnicas de biología molecular y clonaje de genes foráneos en organismos unicelulares, y el surgimiento de los primeros medicamentos recombinantes. En la década de 1980 y 1990, se obtiene sorprendentes resultados de transgénesis de animales y plantas y ya finalizando el siglo aparece la clonación ó generación de animales idénticos a partir de células somáticas. En este trabajo se valora críticamente las oportunidades y riesgos de la transgénesis y la clonación en el plano ético actual, teniendo en cuenta la amenaza de los seres clónicos, la responsabilidad social de los científicos, la polarización del sistema científico internacional y los códigos morales, además de la ética del profesional científico cubano que responde al principio de que el futuro de nuestra patria tiene que ser necesariamente un futuro de hombres de ciencia<hr/>Even though Biotechnology is as old as the invention of wine and beer fermentation by men, it experiences an important take off in the 60s, with the development of molecular biology techniques and cloning of strange genes in unicellular organisms, and the emergence of the first recombinant medications. In the decade of 1980 and 1990, surprising results in transgenesis of animals and plants are obtained and by the end of the century cloning or generation of identical animals starting from somatic cells is carried out. In this work the opportunities and risks of transgenesis and cloning are analyzed critically taking into account the current ethical perspective, keeping in mind the threat of cloned beings, the social responsibility of scientists, the polarization of the international scientific system and moral codes, as well as the Cuban science professionals ' ethics that responds to the principle that the future of our homeland is necessarily a future of science men <link>http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-81202003000100004&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es</link> <description>In the article it is exposed the importance of the complexity thought as a methodological tool to approach human biology, medical activity and the medicine-society relationship. In the introduction it is pointed out that the new tendencies of knowledge and scientific practice lean out timidly as part of the Cuban scientific endeavor and that the knowledge of the theory of complexity is limited among health professionals. In the first section definitions of complexity thought and complex system are given, as well as their general features. Other important concepts are presented: attractors, holographic principle, non lineal dynamics, etc. In the second section the complex character of human biology is explained through recursivity, self-organization and the hologrammatical principle. The third and fourth section covers some ideas about the complexity of the medical activity and of the complex relationship that exists between medicine and society are offered, taking into account that this activity is not isolated from the remaining components of society</description> </item> <item> <title/> <link>http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-81202003000100005&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es</link> <description>In the article it is exposed the importance of the complexity thought as a methodological tool to approach human biology, medical activity and the medicine-society relationship. In the introduction it is pointed out that the new tendencies of knowledge and scientific practice lean out timidly as part of the Cuban scientific endeavor and that the knowledge of the theory of complexity is limited among health professionals. In the first section definitions of complexity thought and complex system are given, as well as their general features. Other important concepts are presented: attractors, holographic principle, non lineal dynamics, etc. In the second section the complex character of human biology is explained through recursivity, self-organization and the hologrammatical principle. The third and fourth section covers some ideas about the complexity of the medical activity and of the complex relationship that exists between medicine and society are offered, taking into account that this activity is not isolated from the remaining components of society</description> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[PÁGINA DE LA HISTORIA]]> http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-81202003000100006&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es In the article it is exposed the importance of the complexity thought as a methodological tool to approach human biology, medical activity and the medicine-society relationship. In the introduction it is pointed out that the new tendencies of knowledge and scientific practice lean out timidly as part of the Cuban scientific endeavor and that the knowledge of the theory of complexity is limited among health professionals. In the first section definitions of complexity thought and complex system are given, as well as their general features. Other important concepts are presented: attractors, holographic principle, non lineal dynamics, etc. In the second section the complex character of human biology is explained through recursivity, self-organization and the hologrammatical principle. The third and fourth section covers some ideas about the complexity of the medical activity and of the complex relationship that exists between medicine and society are offered, taking into account that this activity is not isolated from the remaining components of society