La Storia della Medicina e la sua dimensione etico-antropologica

L’articolo mette in luce la dimensione etico-antropologica della storia della medicina. Nel passato possiamo ritrovare quegli elementi di rilevanza etica che sono in stretta continuità con il presente. Fin dalle origini il medico ha sperimentato il conflitto tra mondo del desiderio e mondo del limite. La cura dei malati comincia da lì, dalla consapevolezza di condividere lo stesso desiderio, lo stesso limite, lo stesso destino. L’articolo guarda alla storia della medicina come storia dell’umanità; dentro vi è tutta la vita umana, secondo la definizione dello storico Fielding Garrison (1913). In questa prospettiva la dimensione etico-antropologica emerge soprattutto nelle molte figure di medici esemplari contraddistinti da valori quali il coraggio, la dedizione, l’empatia, ma soprattutto da un grande senso di umanità e di solidarietà per i propri malati. Infine, una lettura etico-sociale può emergere dall’arte e dalla letteratura. Esse sono non solo testimonianza di un’epoca (documenti storici) ma anche un sismografo delle dimensioni etiche della medicina. ---------- This article highlights the ethical-anthropological level of the history of medicine. It explores the close connection between past and present regarding those elements of ethical relevance in medicine. Since the beginning, the physician experienced the conflict between hopes and limits. Medical care springs exactly from the awareness of sharing the same desire, the same limit, the same destiny. This article regards the history of medicine as history of mankind; according to the historian Fielding Garrison, the history of medicine embodies the entire human life (1913). In this perspective, the ethical-anthropological dimension emerges particularly in many exemplary figures of physicians, distinguished for courage, commitment, empathy, humanity and solidarity towards their patients. Finally, arts and literature can be regarded as instruments to get a cultural perspective, as well as guidelines for social and ethical key of interpretation. They are not only historical documents, but also a seismograph, registering the fundamental historical and ethical dimension of medicine.

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Administrative and legal characteristics of the primary historical stages of origin, formation and deve - lopment of medical care

Law Review of Kyiv University of Law ◽

10.36695/2219-5521.4.2020.35 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 197-201

Author(s):

Viktoriya Kravets

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Medical Care ◽

History Of Medicine ◽

Human Body ◽

Folk Medicine ◽

Herbal Medicines ◽

Practical Skills ◽

Initial Stage ◽

History Of ◽

Xix Century

This article is devoted to the doctrinal study of the genesis of the origin, formation and development of health care, resulting ina study of traditions, customs that have been passed down from generation to generation.The periodization of the history of medicine in Ukraine is formed, which is expediently presented in the form of its systematizationand to formulate its stages, namely: the initial stage (600 million years ago to the XII-VI millennium BC); stage of Kievan Rus(IX century to XIII century); Polish-Lithuanian stage (including Cossack statehood) (XIV to the first half of the XVII cen tury); Theimperial stage (includes the reigns of Peter I, Catherine II and Nicholas II) (XVIII – to the XIX century), the Soviet stage (XX century),the stage of Ukrainian independence (second half of the XX century), the stage of Modern Ukraine (early XXI cen tury – to this day).Also, it was concluded that the main features of the “Initial stage” of the formation and development of medical care are:1) begins to be used in the provision of medical care herbal medicines; 2) there is a use of drugs that determine the mechanism of actionon the human body, namely: narcotic effects, stimulant effects, tonic effects, etc.; 3) the use of magic in the provision of medical care,which arose as a result of empirical research. Accordingly, the main features of the “stage of Kievan Rus” formation and developmentof medical care are: 1) the development of pagan treatment; 2) active development and implementation of the monastic direction oftreatment; 3) the use of folk medicine in the treatment of patients; 4) dissemination of knowledge and practical skills by monks of theKiev-Pechersk Lavra to neighboring lands; 5) the introduction of monastic hospitals, where monks were so humane to the sick to thepoint of self-sacrifice; 6) monasteries became centers of culture and education; 7) there was a separation of such areas of medical careas surgical, orthopedic and therapeutic, etc.

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Shakespeare's Existentials

10.12737/1064939 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pavel Gorohov

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

History Of Philosophy ◽

Close Connection ◽

Philosophical Literature ◽

Space And Time ◽

Wide Range ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

First Time

For the first time in the Russian historical and philosophical literature, the monograph attempts to comprehensively consider the philosophical views of the great playwright and thinker. Shakespeare is presented as a philosopher who considered in his masterpieces the relation of man to the world through a series of"borderline situations". Shakespeare not only anticipated the existentialist philosophers, but also appeared in his work as the greatest philosopher-anthropologist. He reflects on the essence of nature, space and time only in close connection with thoughts about human life. For a wide range of readers interested in the history of philosophy and Shakespeare studies.

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Angus Mclaren, Reproductive rituals, London and New York, Methuen, 1984, 8vo, pp. viii, 206, £5.95 (paperback). - Teizo Ogawa (editor), History of obstetrics (Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine-East and West), Tokyo, Division of Medical History, Taniguchi Foundation, 1984, 8vo, pp. viii, 283, illus., [no price stated]. - Ann Oakley, The captured womb. A history of the medical care of pregnant women, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1984, 8vo, pp. x, 351, illus., £17.50.

Medical History ◽

10.1017/s0025727300044367 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 321-322

Author(s):

Roy Porter

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Medical Care ◽

International Symposium ◽

Pregnant Women ◽

History Of Medicine ◽

Medical History ◽

Comparative History ◽

History Of ◽

Seventh International Symposium ◽

East And West

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Society for the Social History of Medicine Student Millennium Prize Essay: Reassessing the Role of the Family: Women's Medical Care in Eighteenth-century England

Social History of Medicine ◽

10.1093/shm/16.3.327 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 327-342 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

L. W. Smith

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Medical Care ◽

History Of Medicine ◽

Social History ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

History Of ◽

Social History Of Medicine ◽

Prize Essay

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The Strange Story of Clozapine

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/s0007125000131691 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 162 (1) ◽

pp. 32-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

P. J. McKenna ◽

P. E. Bailey

Keyword(s):

Medical Care ◽

History Of Medicine ◽

Considerable Extent ◽

Recent History ◽

Strange Story ◽

History Of

A feature of the recent history of medicine has been the introduction of treatments whose costs are orders of magnitude higher than doctors are used to justifying. Having previously been left almost untouched by these developments, psychiatrists are beginning to find themselves in the position previously occupied by renal physicians, transplant surgeons, and oncologists – having to face uncomfortable decisions about costs versus benefits and the rationing of medical care. To a considerable extent this is a consequence of the launch of the new, ‘atypical’, and ‘superior’ neuroleptic, clozapine.

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