Abstract

BARBER FOX, María O  and  BARBER GUTIERREZ, Ernesto. La fisiología y el problema de la correlación entre lo biológico y lo social. Educ Med Super [online]. 2000, vol.14, n.2, pp. 163-170. ISSN 0864-2141.

The problem of the correlation between the biological and the social aspect has been a philosophical preoccupation and has been studied by many researchers linked to Medical Sciences. The predominance in Medical Sciences of the trend to make the biological aspect absolute, underestimating the action of the social aspect, is stressed in literature. Taking into consideration the previous elements, it has been studied the behaviour of this correlation through the historical development of Physiology and how it manifests in the function of the human body. Emphasis is made on the importance of the approach of man as a social being. It is concluded that Physiology before the XIX century had an eminently biological character . The social character of man started to be accepted with the development of the study of the higher nervous activity and there are at present multiple evidences of the social essence of man.

Keywords : PHYSIOLOGY [history]; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY [physiology].

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