MEDICA REVIEW. International Medical Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades Médicas

Suffering, therapy, and meeting

Claudinei Aparecido de Freitas da Silva — 2023-07-15

The review, in focus, aims at an analysis of the recent book "Sofferenza, terapia, incontro: etica e crisi della medicina" by Gabriel Marcel, curated by Franco Riva and translated by Paolo Scolari, by Castelvecchi, Milan. It is a small set of essays written by the French philosopher when relating the phenomenon of suffering from sharing the encounter with the other as a therapeutic form.

Interview with Dr. Martín Grassi

Martin Grassi — 2023-03-10

Entrevista a Fernando Yaacov Peña Moyano

Fernando Yaacov Peña Moyano — 2023-08-19

Self-Consciousness Medicine allows both therapists, patients and people in general to seek greater balance and physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being through the practice of habits, techniques and exercises known since ancient times and that have now been compiled and organized with a medical orientation so that they are within the reach of seekers of a more transcendental and healthy life. We live in a turbulent world where illness, suffering, pain, and sadness are frequent aspects of most human beings, regardless of their socioeconomic status, religion, race, or educational level. At the same time, we are being inundated by harmful food products that contribute to the prolongation of many chronic diseases. There is an existential vacuum that leads to seek the satisfaction of cravings and find pleasure in what only generates more illness, suffering and death. We can search for inner peace, happiness, love and health, if we are really convinced of a change.

Entrevista a Simeão Sass. Medicina Mente Cuerpo y el Dualismo Cartesiano, Una Perspectiva Filosófica

Simeão Sass — 2023-09-04

Entrevista a Simeão Sass (Universidad Federal de Uberlândia, en el Instituto de Filosofía, en Brasil) acerca del dualismo cartesiano y la medicina Mente Cuerpo. La entrevista ha sido realizada por la Directora Científica de la revista, Andrea Catalina Nassar Tobón (médica especialista en Neurología Clínica de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Colombia).

Entrevista al Maestro de Yoga Luis Alirio Agudelo Grajales

Nicolas Piedrahita Varon — 2023-10-27

Esta entrevista ofrece una visión profunda sobre los orígenes y el desarrollo del yoga y sus beneficios en la salud Mente-Cuerpo. El entrevistado, Luis Alirio Agudelo Grajales, profesor de yoga con una amplia experiencia, comparte su conocimiento y perspectiva personal sobre este tema. En esta entrevista, encontramos su experiencia en torno al yoga, a los impactos que tiene en la cultura y la salud del país, así como los retos que ha enfrentado. Se resalta la necesidad de estudiar y comprender a profundidad los principios universales del yoga para integrarlos a la cultura colombiana. Por último, muestra optimismo sobre el futuro del yoga, en torno a su integración en ámbitos como la educación, la psicología y la medicina, destacando la importancia de combinar el conocimiento oriental y occidental para lograr un pensamiento equilibrado e integral.

Stress Reduction Program from Mind-Body Medicine

Andrea Catalina Nassar Tobón — 2023-10-27

This text reflects on the harmful consequences of chronic stress and proposes a stress reduction program based on relaxation techniques. It is grounded in mind-body medicine, the transtheoretical model, and socio-cognitive theory because they offer a comprehensive approach to promote relaxation habits and physical well-being. The program consists of eight weekly sessions lasting 60 minutes each, along with exercises, with the aim of reducing allostatic load. Effectiveness is assessed using the Stress Perception Scale. Although there are no empirical results yet, the goal is to promote health, prevent illnesses, and enhance the quality of life.

Reversibility and style in Merleau-Ponty’s theory

Jesica Estefanía Buffone — 2023-03-28

I will analyze the fundamentals that make possible the discovery, interaction and interweaving with other subjectivities. I consider that in this circuit of reversibility in which the others are a constitutive part of ourselves, the perception of the motor style is what gives rise to intersubjective exchanges, being this kinesthetic and intercorporeal primary pairing the origin of joint action and, thus, of any community bond. From the description that Merleau-Ponty makes of this dynamic of involvement of my body with the environment, the surrounding world is a constitutive part of that exchange, determining specific ways of doing and moving together.

Body Proper, Appropriated

Martin Grassi — 2023-06-07

The concept of habit receives a technical-philosophical use in the work of Aristotle that entails a dialectics between the agent and a system in which he is situated. In its dual active and passive dimensions, the notion of habit enables to understand the living body as a body proper and, at the same time, as an appropriated body. The habit is the fundamental biopolitical dispositive by which the living body is appropriated and subjected to the Body Politic and its logic, made explicit in Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus.

Corporeal Consciousness: The Tattoo as Lived Temporality

Marivania Cristina Bocca — 2023-11-21

The purpose of this article is to explore the foundations of the Sartrian notion of corporeal consciousness. Sartre's philosophy rejects the idea of a substantial body or a separate repository of consciousness. Instead, body and consciousness are two interconnected instances, forming a unified whole. In this view, the body is a temporal and concrete condition essential to human praxis. The act of tattooing the body reveals a skin that is drawn, colored, and shaded. The experience of the tattooed body can be understood through the three ontological dimensions proposed by Sartre.