Abstract

G. RILLO, Arturo; ARCEO GUZMAN, Mario Enrique  and  OCANA SERVIN, Héctor. Elements of join medicalization with the western medical tradition and contemporary health Koine . Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.2, pp.275-285. ISSN 1729-519X.

Introduction: rationality and measurability of health-supporting social imaginary disease to generate a health koine that articulates with the Western medical tradition to determine how to live a healthy life. Objective: identify historical and philosophical elements that allow to approach the understanding of medicalization as the linchpin of the Western Medical Tradition and contemporary health Koine. Develo Starting point: the medicalization goes back to school Hippocratic and thinking Andreas Vesalius, identifies health oblivion, the hegemony of the disease and the measurability of clinical variables as elements that give meaning to the Western Medical Tradition. Horizon of understanding: the mathematization of nature and ownership of the experiment by William Harvey and Claude Bernard, can approach the disease through the concept of normal and pathological, also highlights the influence of the material conditions of life in the process of becoming ill. Fusion of horizons: the influence of social in medicine through Durkheim, Canguilhem, Dubos, Salleras, Terris, Pérez Lovelle, Laframboise and Lalonde, creates a syncretism that allows to define the field of health and incorporating the patient's responsibility to maintain health state. Conclusions: The study leads to the conclusion that: the neglect of health, the hegemony of the disease, the measurability of clinical variables, normality, determinants of health and lifestyles are elements that articulate the Western medical tradition with health Koine contemporary.

Keywords : medicalization; health; disease; hippocratic tradition; modern rationalism; social medicine; history of medicine.

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