Diego Alejandro Estrada-Mesa

Diego Alejandro Estrada-Mesa
Cooperative University of Colombia · Facultad de Medicina

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El juicio clínico se ha convertido en un tópico capital para la filosofía de la medicina y la profesión médica desde los sesenta. Tras el desarrollo de la medicina basada en la evidencia en los noventa, se espera una mayor sensibilidad en el juicio clínico frente a las necesidades y preferencias de los pacientes ante las amenazas de enfoques positi...
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Background Cancer has different explanatory theories that address its etiology and treatment. It is usually associated with pain and suffering. Recently, new technologies, knowledge, and therapies have been developed, which may have transformed the classic social representations of the disease. This study aimed to understand the social representati...
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Unlabelled: To understand the influence of positive thinking ideology on cancer representations among physicians in the city of Medellín. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted on the basis of the theoretical and methodological elements of Corbin and Strauss's grounded theory. Fourteen physicians were included and selected according to th...
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Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, uno de los grandes problemas profesionales de la medicina resaltado por los facultativos ha sido las brechas entre la investigación y el ejercicio clínico. La autoridad de los médicos se fundamentaba en ciertas condiciones de autonomía profesional. Sin embargo, también predominaba la idea de que las decisiones...
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Purpose This study aimed to understand the lived experiences of patients with cancer that facing inequities in oncological care in the city of Medellín. Patients and Methods A qualitative study was conducted based on the theoretical and methodological elements of the grounded theory, specifically the description and conceptual ordering of Corbin a...
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Purpose This study has the following objectives: i) to construct an instrument to measure positive thinking ideology (PTI) regarding cancer, and to evaluate its psychometric properties, ii) to describe the effects of PTI on cancer risk and its treatment, and iii) to identify the associated factors with PTI in the study group. Methods A cross-secti...
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Purpose This study was conducted to understand the preferences of patients with cancer in Medellin, Colombia. Methods A qualitative approach based on the theoretical and methodological resources of the grounded theory was conducted. Between June 2020 and March 2021, patients over 18 years old with a confirmed diagnosis of cancer within the past 2...
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En la formación en medicina existen múltiples textos sobre el futuro de la disciplina, la mayoría realizan la prospectiva a partir de temáticas específicas como las limitaciones en el conocimiento fisiopatológico, etiológico o terapéutico de algunas enfermedades, los usos de la investigación científica, la articulación con las ingenierías y el desa...
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En los últimos cincuenta años, las humanidades médicas se han constituido en un campo heterogéneo de disciplinas que pretende impactar de forma significativa la formación médica. Los trabajos empíricos en En Latinoamérica son exiguos los trabajos sobre la función de las humanidades médicas, las áreas que estas integran, los conocimientos que las co...
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Inside Public Health and Medicine have been ignored important considerations about philosophy of technique in lifestyles and fitness. This has meant that such notions be linked to individualistic perspectives where a social vacuum is highlighted. In this paper we present a reflection about Body Improvement Technology. This construct seeks to highli...
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El desarrollo de este artículo de reflexión surge tras el análisis de la práctica médica cotidiana donde se evidencian discrepancias entre estudiantes de medicina, docentes clínicos, médicos generales y especialistas en áreas médicas, en lo que corresponde a la marcada variabilidad en los enfoques terapéuticos en el personal clínico asistencial. Ad...
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A pesar de esfuerzos recientes, son pocas las investigaciones que han explorado el tema de la ética médica en la obra del filósofo médico francés Georges Canguilhem. Esto obedece, fundamentalmente, a la posición crítica que este autor asumió frente a las modas humanistas propias de la medicina que comenzaron a proliferar después de la Segunda Guerr...
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The concept of problematization is fundamental into the Foucault’s philosophical works. However, the omission of this notion resulted in a stereotype that included their proposals together with those of social constructivism. On the contrary, I suggest that the concept of problematization relates the Foucault’s works with Canguilhem’s historical ep...
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La salud pública ha sido influenciada por Michel Foucault; sin embargo, el análisis de sus obras sobre medicina ha sido marginal. El objetivo de esta investigación fue caracterizar las publicaciones científicas relacionadas con medicina en la obra del filósofo francés, siguiendo las fases de identificación, tamización e inclusión de la guía PRISMA....
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The concept of apparatus has turned in a common notion within the Human Sciences. Based on Michel Foucault's ideas, there has been an important reflection about this concept recently. This paper seeks to point out some lines of investigation that have been established by Foucault's philosophy of the apparatus. I stress, specially, some investigatio...
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Este artículo pretende resaltar la lectura que Michel Foucault realiza de lamedicina grecolatina en el mundo antiguo. Más que caracterizarse por susrasgos terapéuticos, tal discurso médico buscaba la producción de una éticade la existencia. A partir de diferentes textos prescriptivos desarrolladospor filósofos, moralistas y médicos, se muestra la i...
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Introduction: Philosophical and socio-anthropological discourses about the body have not been of interest in medical formation. Objective: To understand the social representations of the body in medical students, Medellin, 2014. Methods: Ethnography with 11 students selected by theoretical sampling. Social representations were studied with the proc...
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This paper seeks stand out Michel Foucault's interpretation about the Greco- Roman medicine in the ancient world. More than be a therapeutic medicine, this practice was assumed like an ethical project. From different prescriptive texts developed by philosophers, moralists and physicians, Foucault suggests that the health entails freedom. The genera...
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The issue of medicine in some of Michel Foucault's works provides an opportunity to understand the problem of modern subjectivity. The research undertaken by Foucault on the birth of the clinic and the issue of medicalization is one of the few examples in which a particular knowledge produces ways of existing. As is shown in the paper, medical know...
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This article focuses on the concept of governing. Based on some philosophical approaches by thinkers like Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Giorgio Agamben, and Maurizio Lazzarato among others, an argument is developed about the ways how the human is constructed. Firstly, a terminological exploration on the verb "to govern/to rule" is carried out...
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El presente articulo pretende destacar un asunto que durante mucho tiempo, especialmente desde la Era Moderna, estuvo confinado al olvido. El tema del cuerpo ha sido objeto de multiples intervenciones que lo redujeron a un nivel instrumental. Para el orden social de la Modernidad, la dimension corporal ha sido una herramienta utilizada para la perp...
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Three things are analyzed in this text. First, the formation of the machine-body of the modern world, it means, the modeling of the existence according to a technologic rationality wangled and administered by modern institutions like the family, the school, the job and the clinic. Second, the implantation in the life of subject-object dualism, matt...
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La medicina moderna, al darle un carácter pasivo al cuerpo, lo condenó a la ausencia. Según esto, el hombre está compuesto de una realidad orgánica que deviene cosa, un objeto más de la naturaleza que puede ser controlado. Al igual que todo lo perecedero y lo temporal, el cuerpo es despreciado. Querer prolongar la vida, huirle a la muerte así sea d...
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The following paper intends to approach to two important concepts in the reflection of the German Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt. Firstly, the concept of "Politics" will be elucidated in order to exhibit its sense in terms of the ordinary use of this concept. Secondly, the notions of Liberty and Power, which are central to understand the sense of...
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La medicina moderna, al darle un carácter pasivo al cuerpo, lo condenó a la ausencia. Según esto, el hombre está compuesto de una realidad orgánica que deviene cosa, un objeto más de la naturaleza que puede ser controlado. Al igual que todo lo perecedero y lo temporal, el cuerpo es despreciado. Querer prolongar la vida, huirle a la muerte así sea d...

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