2003, Number 2
Rev Mex Enf Cardiol 2003; 11 (2)
Care philosophy. Integral body according to greeks
Benavides HMJA
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Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT
In order understand the “Integral Body” concept as an analysis cathegory within the nurse-patient relationship, it is pertinent to recall the ancient Greeks who concieved the body as a micro-universe. Hipocrates’s “Treaty of winds, waters, and places”, which instead giving a divine origin to illnesses, discussed environmental causes for evaluating the inhabitants health, as so the body, whose nature is determined under the human shape, became a scientifical object. The body, when becoming a scientifical reflection object, represents the cosmo-genesis of elements configuration, and so, all what happens within the universe is useful to under stand. What happens to the human body. It is worth to remember what Galeno said: “The soul habits are a consequence from the humoral completion of the body; its adequate balance is a crutial fact on health, and its unbalance, as a consequence, is illness. The idea of preventive medicine from the Greek perspective emphasized not only on a diet, but on the patient’s lifestyle.In the healthy organism everything is submitted to the rule of the right proportion, quantity and quality, according to the age, the season of the year, and the nature of the job. There fore, this things are at the same time the main sources for health, as well as for illness. For the Greeks, the life or dietary regime is the collection of the body habits that constitute man’s activity; determinants according age, sex, the particular ways of each in confordividual, and the body complexion, are the reason why it became the main theme for sophistic divulgation among the population. Starting from this reference, we incorporated the concept of “Corporeity or Integral Body” to the reference framework of nursing, in order to understand this so particular, almost mystical, relationship that implies the nurse-patient relation ship and his/her body.REFERENCES