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Tracking the origin of obesity
One of the main contemporary questions of global interest is understanding the origin of obesity. While the scientific community is ardently discussing the issue, they have not yet come up with a single answer. There is consensus, however, that this metabolic imbalance is of interest to both public health and the economy. In recent decades,…
The contraption to separate humans
Health sciences underwent a radical transformation from the discovery, in 1953, of the structure of DNA. Since then, scientists have made important advances in relation to understanding the functioning of DNA. In 1990, was created the Human Genome Project in order to coordinate research that aimed to identify all genes in human DNA and determine…
Issues about the science
It is clear that scientific knowledge has a «superior» status in the developed societies of the West. In this sense, British-Australian science philosopher Alan Chalmers points out that human undertakings appropriate the «science» label to gain prestige. Now, where is this evaluation of the scientific among citizens from? While there are critical voices around various…
Fear moves the world
The reflection on what man is goes back to the origins of Western philosophical thought, such information about what constitutes the human thing was, paradoxically, a consideration of the animal. Man always needs to be reflected in the animal to find what is his own. In ancient times man sought to recognize human traits in…
«Think» the imagination
Although imagining is not something new, it is true that throughout the ages it has been transformed enough to give rise to a new problematization in different movements. During the twentieth century, the imagination had a privileged place in the conceptual debates about its impact on literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic and political writings, among others. This…
The word as a tool to recover the personal universe
The war is traumatic. Not only for the material bullets that hurt the bodies, but also for the fact that their blows hit the heart of symbolic resources, the only plot in which a person can take place. The core of the traumatic lies in this being devoid of the imaginary-symbolic veils versus the real.…
Truce between psychoanalysis and Neurosciences
Psychoanalysis is one of the main therapeutic orientations in the field of mental health. However, in recent decades the greatest influence of biological psychiatry, inspired by neurosciences, and psychological currents with greater affinity with it, such as cognitive-behavioral psychology, is notable. Under this scenario, recent years have witnessed problems, counterpositions and articulations among psychoanalysts, psychiatrists…
Poetry that comes from Big Bang
According to the postulates of John Berger of 1972, we can affirm that the visible does not exist anywhere except in the set of images that the eye creates when looking. And, although sometimes the visible may remain hidden or alternatively illuminated, once the eye apprehends it, it begins to be part of our livelihood.…
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