scholarly journals The Greek origin of caduceum: Æsculapius.

1969 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-393
Author(s):  
Arturo G. Rillo
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Real Environment ◽  
Medicine History

Introduction: Medicine history gives us the chance to reflect about the Caduceus as the synthesis of the dialectic of the sensible and spiritual life. This opens and horizon of comprehension and allow us to recover the legend of Asclepius and it’s cult with the different symbolic elements that structure it. The legend: The historic and mythological references about Asclepius’ existence gives structure to the legend in a real and not-real environment perduring in the occidental medicine tradition as a mystical reference to the deity for the medical practice. The cult: It’s based in the incubation and synthesizes healing rites and therapeutical practices, as medical as surgical; exercise, sleep cures and amusement activities. The symbol: The linguistic origin of Asclepius’ name, the symbolism of the legend protagonists and the iconographic representation of their attributes, converge in the Caduceus to represent the medical practices and ideas synthesis, all them related to the human life. Conclusion: Asclepius’ perception transcends the Olympic divinity and situates him as the healing archetype; that’s why Caduceus is consistent with the system-world representation that rules the actual medical practice.

Pengaruh Media Sosial bagi Tugas Penggembalaan Imam pada Era Revolusi Industri 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-212
Author(s):  
Avelinus Moat Simon
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Church Members ◽  
The Church

In the age of Industrial Revolution 4.0, human life is influenced by various of sophisticated technologies. One of them is social media that increasingly develop, and take some impacts in human life. The fact is there are some priests ignore their pastoral duty and this takes the result that the church is separated. Many of priests don’t live up to their calling as good shepherds. They cannot recognize the church members who entrusted to them by a bishop. This study focus on the influence of social media for a priest’s duty. The research method used in the issue is a qualitative method by using literature approach. I found out that a priest is a shepherd for members of catholic community. A priest ordained by a bishop to continue Christ duty. Social media can become a tool and an equipment for a priest to develop the spiritual life and ministry. The attendance of a priest is the presence Christ as a good shepherd for His sheeps.

scholarly journals SPIRITUAL CIRCLE IN MURSHID AND PURE RELATION SURGERY

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-97
Author(s):  
Ahmad Syatori
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Social Attraction ◽  
Past Life ◽  
The Relationship

In this journal contains a description of the explanation of the relationship (relationship) between someone who plays himself as a teacher spiritual guide (Murshid) with other people who act as followers (Disciples). The second role is certainly not a role in the theater or soap opera shows that we watch on television, but it is a concrete manifestation on the real stage of life. In the tradition sosial urf social-attraction there are life phenomena that are very unique and interesting to study and examine in depth. Because in this phenomenon there is a mirror of human life, which between one another has a very strong relationship and attachment between them. This relationship can be intensively interwoven both physically and mentally which is implemented directly in religious spiritual life and social life. From each of them there were those who became role models who were very adhered to and respected, namely a murshid teacher. While others become followers who are very obedient and loyal, namely a student. The closeness of the relationship between murshid and students is part of an inseparable relationship. Both are bound and related to each other. Each of them takes care and maintains each other. This kind of life portrait is a picture of past life in the time of the Prophet and his companions. Where the Prophet's figure was his capacity as a figure who became uswah (role model) for his companions whose capacity was a loyal follower of the Prophet. This paper aims to reveal the pact around the scope of life in the circle of social-spiritual life played by God's chosen servants.

Everyday Knowledge and Apothecary Craft: Pharmacopoeias of Ancient Northwestern Honduras

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Shanti Morell-Hart
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Plant Residues ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Starch Grains ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
Everyday Knowledge ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Ancient Texts

Medicinal practices were critical in ancient societies, yet we have limited insight into these practices outside references found in ancient texts. Meanwhile, historic and ethnographic resources have documented how a number of plants, from across the landscape, are assembled into pharmacopoeias and transformed into materia medica. These documentary resources attest to diverse healthcare practices that incorporate botanical elements, while residues in the archaeological record (seeds, phytoliths and starch grains) point to a variety of activities, some of them therapeutic in nature. Focusing on four pre-Hispanic communities in northwestern Honduras, I draw upon ethnobotanical and ethnobiological knowledge to infer medical practices potentially represented by ancient plant residues. Comparing these findings with prior investigations, I address the limits of dividing taxa into mutually exclusive categories such as ‘food’, ‘fuel’ and ‘medicine’. I consider the importance of apothecary craft in past lifeways, as well as the persistence of many traditions in contemporary medical practice.

Globalisation Interrupted? The Case of Opium in the Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Ming Dynasty China

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Antonio Cantón Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Yuan Dynasty ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Medical Tradition ◽  
The Yuan Dynasty ◽  
Western Drug

The spread of Western medical practices to China, initiated during the Mongol dynasty, is often considered an example of “medical globalisation,” but few studies have looked at the actual level of adoption of Western medicine in the period after the Yuan dynasty. This essay analyses eighteen Ming dynasty medical sources in order to assess the role of opium, a Western drug, in post-Yuan medical practice. This essay concludes that opium was not widely used in the first centuries of the Ming dynasty, and, when finally adopted in the sixteenth century, its use was disconnected from the Yuan dynasty medical tradition. These findings make us question the continuity and even the existence of the “Mongol medical globalisation,” as well as the validity of the use of synchronic methodology for the study of centuries-long processes such as globalisation.

scholarly journals Human Life and Medical Practice

1989 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-165
Author(s):  
M. Puxon
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Human Life

scholarly journals FOLK STORIES ABOUT COVID-19 AS A PHENOMENON OF MODERN URBAN FOLKLORE

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-185
Author(s):  
Marina A. Trostina ◽  
◽  
Ksenia N. Shishkanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
The People ◽  
Urban Folklore ◽  
Means Of Transmission ◽  
Folk Stories ◽  
Official Sources

The article analyzes folk stories about COVID-19 recorded in the urban environment during March–December 2020. The authors identify different varieties of “COVID” prose (the cases from medical practice, “confessions” of the people on the way to recovery, “hypotheses” of the virus’s origin, gossips about the planned chipping, traditional recipes for “the Chinese infection”, etc.), determine their subject matter (the origin of the virus, the duration of the pandemic, methods of COVID treatment, the vaccine’s effectiveness, means of transmission, etc.); distinctive features of oral stories are also given: the content’s relevance, the responsiveness to new hypotheses and versions of the virus’s origin and treatment, the mobility of genre’s boundaries. The tales of medical workers, telling about extraordinary incidents in medical practice, combine the tragic and the comic features. Their characters are doctors, showing miracles of endurance and selflessness, and “sufferers” — patients who are worthy of respect and sympathy. Narratives existing in a vast sociocultural space are based both on personal experience and on information obtained from “official sources” (mass media, Internet, medical workers). The emergence and active development of “COVID” folklore is an indication of folklore’s dominant features to respond vividly to changes in human life and society and acts as a clear demonstration of the sustainable development of folk traditions at the present stage.

Philosophy as a Way of Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-33
Author(s):  
Mark R. Wynn
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Spiritual Ideal ◽  
Guiding Questions

This chapter introduces some of the guiding questions of the investigation, here drawing on Pierre Hadot’s text Philosophy as a Way of Life. These questions include: how should we understand the nature of spiritual goods? What is the relationship between a tradition’s world view and its conception of the well-lived human life? How should we conceive of the connection between the different vocabularies that can be used to describe progress in the spiritual life, for instance, those involving metaphysical and experiential categories? What epistemic conditions, if any, does a world view need to meet if it is to be capable of informing a spiritual ideal of life? And what is the contribution of tradition in shaping our understanding of the spiritual life? The key concept that runs through this volume is Thomas Aquinas’s notion of infused moral virtue, and this chapter also introduces this notion and considers its fruitfulness for addressing the second of these questions, concerning the relationship between world view and ideal of life. A contrast is drawn between Aquinas’s account of these matters, according to which some spiritual goods—the goods that are the object of the infused moral virtues—cannot be identified independently of reference to our theological or metaphysical context, and Hadot’s account, according to which ethical or spiritual ideals come first, and provide the basis for metaphysical commitments. We note some reasons for thinking that this distinction between the two authors should not be too sharply drawn.

The Natural Law Foundations of Medical Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P George ◽  
Christopher O Tollefsen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Medical Law ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Right To Health Care

This chapter seeks to identify the basic human goods that are the foundational principles of the natural law; a derived set of moral norms that emerge from consideration of the integral directiveness or prescriptivity of those foundational principles; and the implications of these norms for medical practice and medical law as regards four questions. First, how should medical practice and medical law be structured with respect to the intentional taking of human life by members of the medical profession? Second, who, in the clinical setting, has authority for medical decision making, and what standards should guide their decisions? Third, what standards should govern the distribution of health-care resources in society, and do those standards give reasons for thinking, from the natural law standpoint, that there is a ‘right to health care’? Fourth, what concern should be shown in medical practice and medical law for the rights of ‘physician conscience’?

Qualities of a spiritual person and spiritual living

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benkat Krishna Bharti ◽  
Krishna Kumari Verma
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Positive Aspect ◽  
Unconditional Love ◽  
High Regard ◽  
Whole Heart ◽  
Mental Well Being

Spirituality is a positive aspect of human life or excellence that we must have a high regard for it. Our life is filled with spiritual qualities or values. Spirituality is helpful for the physical, social, and mental well-being. It develops harmony, peace and happiness. A spiritual person feels affection for God shall get at the spirit of spiritual quality. His requirement is to attain spiritual life with his full faith, wisdom and whole heart. Spiritual life is like a bed of roses. In this article we have discussed twelve essential qualities of a spiritual person. These are: positive thinking, inner peace, egoless, unconditional love, optimism, harmony, humility, responsibility, compassion, justice, simplicity, and reciprocity. Besides we have discussed spiritual living and the living mode to maintain spiritual health.

Harm in the absence of care: Towards a medical ethics that cares

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Martinsen
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Carol Gilligan ◽  
Contemporary Medicine

The aim of this article is to investigate the concept of care in contemporary medical practice and medical ethics. Although care has been hailed throughout the centuries as a crucial ideal in medical practice and as an honourable virtue to be observed in codes of medical ethics, I argue that contemporary medicine and medical ethics suffer from the lack of a theoretically sustainable concept of care and then discuss possible reasons that may help to explain this absence. I draw on the empirical studies of Carol Gilligan on care and connectedness as ontologically situated realities in human life. Based on a philosophical elaboration of her findings on the ethics of care emphasizing relationality, I try to show how the notion of ‘relational ontology’ originating from this stream of thought may be of help in developing a medical ethics that acknowledges care as a perspective to be observed in all interactions between physicians and patients.

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