Asceticism

This chapter examines the idealization of asceticism, itself motivated by an extreme form of ressentiment motivated by the construal of all human suffering as a threat to the agent’s power. I circumscribe the “priestly” (or moral) asceticism that poses problem for Nietzsche and discuss the ways in which it is a paradoxical phenomenon. The ascetic solution to the problem of suffering consists in “interpreting it under the perspective of guilt,” or as punishment. I attempt to determine both the nature of the problem of suffering and how this ascetic strategy is meant to address it. I then describe Nietzsche’s functional critique of this ascetic strategy: it is “ruinous” to the health of the agent. Drawing on his conception of health and sickness, I suggest that, when ascetic morality functions in service to the will to power of the agent, it undermines it. Its functionality is self-undermining.

Un Análisis Bibliométrico De La Psicodinámica Del Trabajo

The present research concentrated on mapping the national and international production on the Psychodynamics of Work, by analysing its dimensions and trends. The research dwelt on a temporal cut that covers from 1970 to 2018, and used the Web of Science database, alongside the VOSviewer software, with the objective of identifying clusters. The results show only 49 identified works. By analyzing the theoretical findings, a framework in which the Psychodynamics of Work is subdivided into two major dimensions, context and content, was designed. The context dimension involved work conditions, social relations, and organization. The content dimension covered issues like pleasure and suffering, health and sickness, confrontation strategies, psychic load, subjective mobilization, and recognition, among others.

The protease MBTPS2 is an important regulator of several cellular processes, especially in health and sickness

Since the identification of MBTPS2 in 1997, tremendous progress has been made in determining the protease's functions. The protease has developed from an element of the SREBP cleavage machinery to an important regulator of several cellular processes, especially in health and sickness. With this newfound information from biochemical and structural biology, S2P's proteolytic action through peptide bond hydrolysis can occur in the membrane, providing a conceptual framework for appreciating S2P's roles in other aspects, and showing that many other substrates rely on S2P for their survival. In addition, we discovered the identity of both of S2P's catalytic active sites, an essential finding as the activity of the proteolysis as well as the pathogenesis of MBTPS2-caused illnesses seems to be connected to the molecular and biochemical features of the catalytic sites. Additionally, MBTPS2 causes different diseases, possibly illustrating the pleiotropic nature of the protein. Also, while the ailments reported thus far are all due to mutations that cause MBTPS2 to lose function, other variants that cause MBTPS2 to be hyperactive have not been examined. Nevertheless, recognizing the related sickness pathomechanism is a challenge. Pursuing these challenging technical areas would most definitely enhance our understanding of MBTPS2 in disease states. MBTPS2 appears to be nearing the solution to many of the remaining fundamental questions surrounding the mechanism of its action, as well as being a therapeutic target for new therapies.

Pneumatic Episodes from Homer to Galen

The ‘pneumatic episodes’ of Long’s essay survey ancient Greek ideas about breath (pneuma) and respiration, starting from Homer’s epic poetry and concluding with Galen’s medical ideas about the uses of breathing, and the pathologies of breathlessness. These ancient authors explored vital connections between breath, heart, mind, and brain. They also considered how breath functions to control the body’s temperature, how animal life begins with breath, and why breath and breathing are symptomatic for health and sickness. Their influential thoughts resonate with this book’s generic themes, especially breath’s centrality to inhabiting and understanding the world.

Reproduction between Health and Sickness : Doctors’ Attitudes to Reproductive Issues in Interwar Czechoslovakia

The study examines how doctors in interwar Czechoslovakia intervened in reproductive issues and related areas of life in an attempt to combat the declining birthrate, a trend that was considered a threat to society. Inspired by Foucault’s concept of medicalization and biopower, through the analysis of medical literature and articles from the press in the interwar period, I will demonstrate how Czechoslovak doctors, not only but especially under the influence of eugenics, foregrounded the categories of health and sickness in order to assert definitions of “correct” forms of reproduction while attempting to stigmatize and discourage forms of reproduction that they considered detrimental to the health of society or the nation. The aim of the study is not only to expand the body of knowledge about the activities and attitudes of Czechoslovak doctors in the interwar period but also to call attention to the still current topic of the political background of reproductive policy.

Health Communication in Local Perspective (Critical Study of the Cultural Effects on the Healthy Lifestyle of Communities on the Flores Island)

Traditional societies have cultural wisdom to maintain their health, and care for themselves when sick. Purpose.reveal the facts, circumstances, phenomena of Cultural Influence on the Healthy Lifestyle of Communities on the Island of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. Method.Qualitative descriptive, by uncovering the facts as they are, interpreted and concluded.Results. The traditional community's belief in Flores that health and sickness is determined by an invisible supernatural power. Worship is done through traditional rites to keep the community healthy, or to do spell prayers by the traditional healer in the process of healing the patient. Communication during health care uses traditional methods based on local culture. Their hope is that medical staff will also use local wisdom-based health communication patterns in modern medical care. Conclusion. Medical staff need to study local culture-based health communication in the modern health service process. In the future, it is necessary to include strategies and development of local culture-based health communication in medical care for patients in Indonesia.

Concept of Health and Sickness of the Spanish Gypsy Population: A Qualitative Approach

The Roma community (RC) has poor health indicators, and providing them with adequate healthcare requires understanding their culture and cultural differences. Our objective was to understand the concept of the health and sickness of the RC in Spain, and for this, a qualitative study was conducted. A content analysis utilizing an inductive approach was used to analyze the data. Twenty-three semi-structured interviews were performed, and four main categories were obtained after the analysis of the data: perception of the state of health, the value of health, what was observed, and causal attribution. The inter-relations between the categories shows that the RC have a dichotomous worldview split between non-sickness (health) and sickness mediated by causal attribution. Their worldview is polarized into two values: not sick/sick. When not sick, optimism is prioritized along with happiness, and these two emotions are highly valued, as they also play a physical and social function. When a person becomes noticeably sick, this is understood as being in a negative and severe state, and when there are visible physical implications, then the need to act is made clear. When faced with the need to act, the behavior of the RC is mediated by causal attributions, influenced by nature and religion, timing, concealment by not mentioning the disease, and the origin of the healthcare information. For the organization of an adequate health response for the RC, it is necessary for healthcare systems to be able to merge culture and health care.

“As if His Heart Died”: A Reinterpretation of Moteuczoma’s Cowardice in the Conquest History of the Florentine Codex

The first encounters between Nahuas and Spaniards from 1519 to 1521 resulted in widespread deaths in the indigenous communities of central Mexico. Although the first recorded disease epidemic is often acknowledged as a factor in the loss of rule to the invaders, Moteuczoma receives much of the blame. Historians contend that Moteuczoma’s cowardice facilitated the defeat of his people. Instead, this article argues that descriptions of the pain and fright that afflicted Moteuczoma and his people in Book XII of the Florentine Codex are references to long-standing cultural concepts of illness. This article uses colonial and modern ethnographic sources to illuminate enduring Mesoamerican concepts of health and sickness. The chaos and loss of life connected to the first epidemic in 1520 contributed significantly to the fall of Tenochtitlan. This article reveals how Nahuas remembered and understood the startling arrival of the Spaniards and the first terrifying disease epidemic during the invasion.

From Physical to Spiritual: A Qualitative Study of Jakartans Health & Sickness

Understanding the perceptions of health and sickness can help the government, health providers and health promoters encourage individuals to participate in healthy behaviors and to follow a healthy lifestyle. Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, is a culturally, socially and financially diverse city, with complex health care needs. As yet, there is no published data available about Jakartans’ (i.e., the citizens of Jakarta city) perceptions on health and sickness. This study aimed to describe what health and sickness mean to Jakartans. To this means, we collected data using an open-ended survey about the meanings of health and sickness from 640 Jakartans. Five main themes of health and sickness emerged. The five themes of health were health as a physical condition, a psychological condition, a spiritual condition, a capability to carry out daily activities, and a healthy lifestyle. The themes regarding sickness were sickness as a physical condition, a psychological condition, an abnormal circumstance or bad situations, a spiritual condition, and an inability to carry out daily activities. We discussed how the above-mentioned perceptions might influence the daily health-related behaviors of Jakartans. In contrast to the typical biomedical approach, we found that, in Jakarta, health was not merely seen as a causal effect of the physical world. Further details are discussed.

Narrar la distancia

This paper will focus on the reiterated presence of the notion of ‘distance’ in Samanta Schweblin’s three collections of short stories (El núcleo del disturbio, 2007; Pájaros en la boca, 2009; Siete casas vacías, 2015). Such distance seems to be represented in different ways and from diverse perspectives, as Schweblin’s characters experience the distance from other family members, the distance between health and sickness, and between reality and imagination. The paper will argue that there is a significant difference between Schweblin’s first and last stories, and that such difference is related precisely to the representation of distance, which is featured through discursive modalities in which the depiction of space and its objects has a specific function.