Abstract

QUINTANA TORRES, Jorge Luis; ALVAREZ VAZQUEZ, Augusto Jorge  and  FLORES RODRIGUEZ, Jorge Luis. Needed Notions in order to think about the target of medical profession. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2004, vol.4, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1727-8120.

Each one of the four sections that the logical structure of this article contains seeks to clarify first, from the conceptual and historical point of view, the unhappy image that identifies science with the medical profession, image that doesn't consider their unity and difference. In the other hand, they try to make emphasis in the necessity of understanding the object of science and that of the medical profession, as ways of acting on the individual's vital activity, the family and the community to investigate it or to transform it and, not only, as forms of health or illness attention. The use of bibliographical references reserves the purpose of endorsing the theses that the authors sustain, in its desire to demonstrate that the object of the medical profession is to think it in both an empiric and theoretical ways.A conceptual basis that guides the understanding of the different perspectives in the medical profession and its object, looking for points of contact among this, science's object of study and the way of understanding how both have evolved, which requires four departure elements

Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICAL PHILOSOPHY.

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