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- Title
Anthropological algology and bioethics.
- Authors
Martinez Pintor, Fernando
- Abstract
The importance of biopsychosocial factors in the genesis and maintenance of disease is increasingly being recognized. Most illnesses should be studied from a multifactorial perspective to facilitate understanding and treating them. Many psychopathological processes involve factors such as loneliness, hopelessness, and lack of social cohesion. As early as the nineteenth century, J.M. Charcot defined those illnesses in which no organic lesion was visible as functional disorders. Today, the anthropological view of illness known as the Heidelberg School provides us with a more global and comprehensible assessment of illness. The anthropological approach is complemented by a bioethical one, a bioethics of daily life which, as a practical science, studies and evaluates the living conditions of individuals, seeking practical solutions and contributing its reflections with deliberation and care. In this paper, we aim to highlight the most important factors that have an impact on illness by providing an anthropological view of illness and bringing bioethics closer to everyday life.
- Subjects
BIOETHICS; ANTHROPOLOGY; PAIN management; HEALTH care intervention (Social services); PATHOLOGICAL psychology; BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL model; SOCIAL cohesion; LONELINESS
- Publication
Salud Mental, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 5, p247
- ISSN
0185-3325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17711/SM.0185-3325.2023.031