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This article responds to Coope's call for the medical humanities to address the climate crisis as a health issue. Coope proposes three areas for progress towards ecological thinking in healthcare, with a focus on ecological mental health. The article emphasises the need to understand the cultural dimensions of mental health and proposes an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from the arts and humanities. It examines the impact of climate change on mental health, drawing on The Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and recent studies. The discussion focuses on the intersection of mental health, subjective experience and environmental change. Focusing on emotional experiences as constructed from biological and cultural elements, the article proposes a holistic approach to mental health. It proposes two converging lines of research, in constant interaction: first, a historical and cultural research of those concepts, practices and symbols related to the environment, emphasising a cultural history of nature; and second, a synchronous research, drawing on anthropology, sociology and participatory art-based research, to understand how these aforementioned elements influence our current relations with nature. The article concludes by emphasising the urgency of developing narratives and histories that redirect temporal trajectories towards a better future, while respecting and acknowledging diverse narratives of individual experience. It calls for collaborative efforts from the medical humanities to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between mental health, nature and ecological crisis.
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Las nuevas concepciones en la comprensión de las emociones desarrolladas en las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI posibilitan el desarrollo de nuevos programas de investigación en humanidades y ciencias sociales que tengan en cuenta los elementos de la cultura material y el entorno social en la constitución de la experiencia emocional. Desde este punto de partida, en el presente artículo se realiza, empleando las herramientas de la ontología histórica, el análisis de uno de los hospitales para enfermos incurables, crónicos y ancianos situados en Madrid en el siglo XIX, caracterizándolo como un espacio emocional, es decir: aquellos en los que la gestión de las emociones es la principal práctica médica. Para ello analizaremos las propuestas teóricas desarrolladas por Durand-Fardel y Charcot acerca del tratamiento de este tipo de afecciones. Emplearemos los conceptos de marco y espacio enmarcado, de Erving Goffman, como herramienta explicativa que nos permita comprender la tarea de estructuración de la experiencia emocional puesta en práctica, lo que nos permitirá definir herramientas conceptuales que favorezcan la reinterpretación de las fuentes disponibles desde una nueva perspectiva.(AU)
A new understanding of emotions has been developed in the first two decades of the 21st century that make it possible to develop new research programs in the humanities and social sciences that take into account the role played by material culture and social environment in the constitution of emotional experiences. From this starting point, this article analyses a 19th century hospital for incurable, chronic and elderly patients based in Madrid, characterizing it as an emotional space, that is: one in which managing emotions was the main medical practice. For this, we will analyse the theoretical proposals developed by Durand-Fardel and Charcot regarding these conditions. We will use the concepts of frame and framed space, by Erving Goffman, as an explanatory tool that will allow us to understand medical practice structured the emotional experience of the inmates. We will define conceptual tools that will help us to analyse available sources from a new perspective, that of historical ontology.(AU)
