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Publication type: Journal Article

de Barros JA
Medicamentos: una contribución a la reflexión  hacia su uso racional
RISAI 2009; 1:(3):1-5
http://pub.bsalut.net/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=risai


Abstract:

En la sociedad moderna y de consumo, los medicamentos,
además de ser herramientas que pueden
aliviar los síntomas y curar enfermedades, adquieren
de forma cada vez más intensa funciones de tipo
simbólico e incluso mágico. En un marco donde
predomina la lógica capitalista, a esta nueva concepción
de los medicamentos contribuyen de forma
sinérgica el modelo biomédico (que reduce el proceso
salud-enfermedad a la esfera biológica), y la transformación
de los bienes y servicios –incluyendo los
relacionados con el sector salud- en mercancías de
cuyo consumo depende el bienestar, la salud y la
felicidad.

 

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"Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made."
- William Osler 1909