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Cronicidad y degeneración en neurología / The concept of chronicity and degeneration in neurology
Castañeda-López, Gabriela.
  • Castañeda-López, Gabriela; SSA. Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía. Laboratorio de Historia de la Medicina. Mexico D.F. MX
Gac. méd. Méx ; 142(2): 163-167, mar.-abr. 2006. tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-570738
RESUMEN
Las enfermedades crónico degenerativas ocupan un lugar especial en la medicina contemporánea por el impacto que tienen en el paciente, el entorno familiar y médico, y por sus repercusiones sociales, económicas y laborales. No obstante que la literatura médica registra numerosos escritos científicos que abordan diversos aspectos de estos padecimientos, pocos tratan cuestiones históricas o conceptuales; seguir la evolución que a través de la historia ha tenido el lenguaje médico permite acercarse y adentrarse de manera diferente al conocimiento científico y médico. En este estudio se analiza, desde la perspectiva histórica, cómo dos conceptos, crónico y degeneración, que tienen un origen, uso y significados diferentes, hoy día se unen para designar a las enfermedades que presentan un proceso biológico denominado de forma general degeneración, y que además comparten una condición temporal. En este sentido, las enfermedades crónico degenerativas presentan para la medicina nuevos retos y diferentes abordajes.
ABSTRACT
Chronic degenerative diseases hold a special place in current medicine due to the impact they have in the patient, the familiar and medical environment, and by its social, financial and work related repercussions. Even though medical literature includes numerous scientific writings that approach diverse aspects of these diseases, just a few of them deal with historical or conceptual questions. Following the historical evolution that medical language has undergone will allow us to approach and to study in depth both scientific and medical knowledge. The aim of this study was analyze, from a historical perspective, how two concepts chronic and degeneration, that have a single origin, are used differently and have a different meaning, nowadays have been combined to describe diseases with an underlying biological process, generally known as degenerative, and which in addition share a temporal condition. In this sense chronic degenerative diseases offer medicine new challenges and different ways to approach them.
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Chronic Disease / Neurodegenerative Diseases / Terminology as Topic Language: Spanish Journal: Gac. méd. Méx Journal subject: Medicine Year: 2006 Type: Article Affiliation country: Mexico Institution/Affiliation country: SSA/MX

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Chronic Disease / Neurodegenerative Diseases / Terminology as Topic Language: Spanish Journal: Gac. méd. Méx Journal subject: Medicine Year: 2006 Type: Article Affiliation country: Mexico Institution/Affiliation country: SSA/MX