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A "ciência das doenças" e a "arte de curar": trajetórias da medicina hipocrática / The “diseases sciences” and the “art of curing”: the courses of Hipocratic medicine

Diniz, Denise Scofano.
Rio de Janeiro; s.n; 2006. 160 p.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-441210
The main purpose of this essay is to analyze the courses of Hipocratic medicine throughout the western medical knowledge. It was aimed, through the analysis of literary texts anddocuments, to understand how concepts of life and health-sickness process, derived from the same origin, developed themselves into medical systems, based on distinct paradigms. Thebirth and development of Hipocratic medicine are studied, emphasizing its clinical observation method and therapeutic proposition. Following, the account of historical and dimensions of medical rationalities were studied – Homeopathy and Biomedicine –appraising the role of those concepts on physis, life and vis medicatriz naturae, in each paradigm. Canguilhem and Jacob were the principal theorical support to undertake this study.

Conclusions:

Both Ho meopathy and Hipocratic medicine consider that illness and healing arepart of human life, a matter of more or less equilibrium, an unique and individual process in one’s life. Hahnemann created a therapeutic system based on recognizing the sick one as a singular and unique person, with peculiar ability, to restore and maintain his life, observing the concept of nature, that appears as plural singularities, at each moment, originating a therapeutic prescription which is individual and mobilizes the vis medicatriz naturae. Homeopathic rationality shares Hipocratic concepts, both diagnosis and therapeutic systems.Although biomedicine has its basis settled down on Hipocratic medicine, as long as it became the science of illness, biomedicine neglected its origin a positive health approach as personified therapeutic, for an unique individual is no longer allowed. Homeopathy affirmsitself as a medicine that places health as the central category in its paradigm, instead of illness, both part of life’s phenomena. Therefore, at this path, life gains value and heads towards the “Great Health’s” way, assuming its creative potential, able to “transmute values”.
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