enerbol and Disease

The influence of Kurt Goldstein on the thinking of Georges Canguilhem extended throughout his entire work. This paper seeks to examine this relationship in order to conduct a study of the norm as a nexus or connection between the concept and life. Consequently, this work will be a reflection on the approach to life as a regulatory activity and self-realization. For this, it will be necessary to redefine the concepts of health and disease, and make a crossover between the two. At the end of this trajectory, it will be found that these concepts can explain the identity between the concept and life, which leads to the unexpected conclusion that the cure is ultimately self-healing.

Topics: Animals; Disease; France; Health; History, 20th Century; Humans; Life; Poland

Topics: Biological Evolution; Disease; Health; Humanism; Humans; Life; Medicine

Empirical data on the nature of disease were systematized and summarized in Part 1. In Part 2 the same problem is addressed by the deductive method from the general biological and philosophical standpoint. Methodological assessment of the most popular definitions of the disease is undertaken along with expanded medico-philosophical interpretation of the notion of disease as an anthropological phenomenon including its applied aspects.

Topics: Biological Evolution; Death; Disease; Humans; Life; Philosophy, Medical

Magazines sold on newsstands have become self-help texts, and the study of the topics covered makes it possible to understand how the discourses are constructed, how they become repositories used to give meaning to life. In the case of magazines that deal with the sphere of health, prescribing methods of treatment, prevention and even healthy lifestyles, the studies allow us to understand the meanings of discourses about body and health. In some articles, the emphasis that sometimes highlights the physical aspect is accompanied by the inclusion of mental aspects. This fact gave rise to this study, which seeks to clarify how this mind-body connection is conceptualized and prescribed in these pages. Six articles of a Brazilian health magazine published between August 2005 and February 2006 were analyzed regarding the content of the texts as well as graphic and textual features. The way this media format operates was considered significant, and when associated with the themes: self-diagnosis, the place of emotion, the prescriptions and causality reinforce healthy lifestyles. Readers must learn to self-diagnose and control their emotions, considered to be juxtaposed to the physical emotions. The articles outline a field of health in which the mind-body split deepens and extends, establishing the medicalization of society.

Topics: Disease; Emotions; Humans; Life; Mass Media; Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; Periodicals as Topic

Topics: Age Factors; Aging; Disease; Energy Metabolism; Humans; Individuality; Life; Life Change Events; Longevity; Motor Activity; Personality

Topics: Aging; Attitude to Death; Attitude to Health; Death; Disease; Humans; Life; Longevity; Severity of Illness Index

This year, the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award will be shared by Michael Sheetz, James Spudich, and Ronald Vale for discoveries concerning the biophysical actions of cytoskeletal motor-protein machines that move cargo within cells, contract muscles, and enable cell motility.

Topics: Cell Movement; Cytoskeleton; Disease; Kinesins; Life; Mars; Molecular Motor Proteins; Movement; Muscle Contraction

Topics: Biochemistry; Disease; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Life; Nobel Prize; Phosphorylation

This essay focuses on the structure of agency in Georg Ernst Stahl's model of organic order and the role that it plays for the difference between living and non-living beings in the discourses of medicine and natural history around 1700. Stahl calls the order of organic beings an "organism". He characterizes the "organism" through the notions of tonic movement, energy and ratio. The tonic movement is a mechanism of contraction and relaxation of organic units to direct fluids to certain parts of the body; the energy represents a certain, limited potential of the living body to act spontaneously and to react if it is irritated; and the ratio expresses the logic of a processual, directed order imposed on corporeal dispositions. This ratio inheres in natural agents. However, to establish his theory of agency, Stahl first analyzes the irregular blood movements that characterize diseases. The capacity of the organic body to change these movements and to heal itself in redirecting them, leads him to the assumption that such bodies' can regulate their own order and that self-regulation requires an autonomous agent.

Topics: Animals; Blood Circulation; Disease; History, 18th Century; Homeostasis; Humans; Life; Movement

The purpose of my report is to synthetically summarize the concept of the rotatory essence of the Whole and to bring evidence that while aging responds to a precise inner "program" of the mammalian and any other species' "brain," acceleration of aging and all diseases are simply the direct outcome of a desynchronization of our inner "clock" with respect to the precise periodicity and hormone-integrated rhythmicity of the solar system. Those neuroendocrine, hormonal derangements of our inner clock are easily detectable and inevitably anticipate even by decades the onset of all diseases (autoimmune, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, neoplastic). I will introduce those interventions capable of detecting early alterations and of restoring hormonal rhythmicity, which will consequently restore immunological surveillance in a positive cascade sequence.

Topics: Aging; Animals; Biological Clocks; Cell Transplantation; Death; Disease; Fertility; Growth; Humans; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Melatonin; Periodicity; Pineal Gland

Topics: Adolescent; Animals; Breast Neoplasms; Disease; Female; Humans; Life; Male; Mastectomy; Risk Factors

Topics: Disease; Humans; Life; Nervous System; Nervous System Physiological Phenomena

Topics: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Atrophy; Disease; Life; Lymphatic Diseases; Thymus Gland

Topics: Disease; Humans; Life; Male; Protozoan Infections; Rectal Diseases; Rectum

Topics: Disease; Humans; Life; Life Change Events; Social Environment; Sociology

Topics: Aged; Cardiovascular Diseases; Disease; Humans; Life

Topics: Cause of Death; Death; Disease; Humans; Life; Vital Statistics

Topics: Civilization; Disease; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Focal Infection; Humans; Life

Topics: Disease; Freedom; Humans; Life

Topics: Aged; Disease; Humans; Life; Tuberculosis

Topics: Disease; Humans; Life; Male; Spermatic Cord

Topics: Disease; Humans; Life

Topics: Disease; Famous Persons; History, 17th Century; History, 19th Century; Life

Topics: Disease; Gastroenterology; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Gastrointestinal Tract; Humans; Life; Military Medicine; Military Personnel

Topics: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Disease; Humans; Life; Middle Aged

Topics: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Disease; Humans; Life; Middle Aged