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Rev Med UV 2007; 7 (1)

Concept of alcoholism as a disease: history and actualization

Sánchez-Mejorada FJ

Language: Spanish
References: 32
Page: 27-38
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Parting from the epistemology used in the comprehension of a phenomenon, attitudes are derived and so are the positions and actions towards the called phenomenon. In the field of health and sickness attention, the focus on the diverse problems has changed throughout the years. A first question refers to the location of the phenomenon inside or outside the study field of the health sciences. Another dilemma consists in the determination of the discipline in charge of the phenomenon: medicine? psychology? a specialty or trend of either? Or other sciences? In the history of human kind the examples in which the erratic o partial models regarding the pathological processes are abundant; many sick patients have been ignored, isolated, stigmatized, punished or treated inadequately. The path that alcoholism and other addictions have crossed for becoming part of the study field and the intervention of the health sciences has been long and problematic. It is a process, in fact, incomplete when referring to their integral attention and the definition of public policies that adequately incite in the prevention, at all levels. Without a doubt there have been advances in the understanding of the phenomenon from a health-sickness stand view. In this, the concept of disease, developed and promoted throughout the 20th century, has contributed determinately. This concept, understood under the integral focusing, has allowed the advancement of intervention methodologies that corresponds more efficiently to the alcoholism that is, without a doubt, one of the priority problems of public health in Mexico and the Latin-American region, as a whole. There is still a lot of research to be done.


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