Abstract

VINIEGRA-VELAZQUEZ, Leonardo. Critique and medical education: towards liberating knowledge. Part II. Bol. Med. Hosp. Infant. Mex. [online]. 2019, vol.76, n.2, pp.55-65. ISSN 1665-1146.  https://doi.org/10.24875/bmhim.18000081.

The critique of medicine begins at unveiling and specifying its network of predominant logics, ideas and practices: logics of disjunction and reductionism; the health-disease binomial; the natural history of the disease; the medicalization of social life; the dehumanizing technologization of medical practice and reductionist suppressive medicine. It goes on to argue about its role as agents of domination of limitless profit interests and as an expression of the power of the health industry, justifying itself with the proposal of alternatives tending to overcome that network: transdisciplinarity and the concept of organism as hierarchical totality and interacting with its environment, with respect to disjunction and reductionism; the cultural history of the disease in relation to the health-disease binomial and the dehumanizing technologization; good living, the search for spiritual, intellectual, moral and coexistence growth as meaning of human life, as an alternative to the medicalization and antidote of degrading traits and stimulating medicine of the endogenous healing forces of the organism whose foundation of possibility and credibility is the placebo effect as an alternative to suppressive therapy for non-communicable chronic conditions, based on the pharmacological effect with unfailing side effects. It concludes that without an education based on critique, liberating knowledge would hardly accompany and guide the various social groups in the search for an inclusive, pluralistic, egalitarian, fair, solidary and caring of the planetary ecosystem world.

Keywords : Reductionism; Medicalization; Suppressive medicine; Stimulating medicine; Placebo effect.

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