Special Issue - Mind Body Medicine
MEDICA REVIEW
International Medical Humanities Review
Revista Internacional de Humanidades Médicas
Title: Mind Body Medicine
Description:
In order to contribute to the construction and dissemination of knowledge about Mind Body Medicine, as well as to reflect on the various perspectives related to the topic, MEDICA REVIEW International Medical Humanities Review invites the international scientific community and health service professionals to submit their thematic articles to the number, referring to Volume 11, Number 1, which will be released in 2023.
The Mind Body Medicine started more than fifty years ago, when doctor Heber Benson, emeritus professor of the Harvard University, published a research that demonstrated that meditation and similar practices such as relaxation techniques, Qi gong, Tai Chi, yoga, respiration exercises and spirituality, among others, reduced the oxygen consumption, decreased blood pressure and heart rate, and started a series of physiological effects that were the opposite of what happens during stress response. This coordinated combination of physiological changes was called "relaxation response" and it was describes as a general and secular procedure that can be caused through the repeated practice of the mind body techniques.
Simultaneously with the growing public interest in the field, multiple researches have been developed, describing the neurobiological, physiological and genomic changes associated with the mind body practices, which has enabled the medical, historical, conceptual, and philosophical grounds of the Mind Body Medicine. Considering as main characteristics the approach that favors the narratives of patients and healthcare professionals as well as the interdisciplinary nature and dialogue between health and humanities, the Mind Body Medicine encourages all the professionals involved in human care to debate the different perspectives of life, health and the diverse welfare state, in relation to such optics.
The thematic number aims to disseminate works in the areas of the Humanities, in dialogue with those of Health Sciences, that address issues related to the scope of the Mind Body Medicine; especially those related to the different mind body techniques, their contributions to health and sickness processes, teaching and learning, research, management and innovation, as well as philosophical, historical, political, social, ethical, and literary aspects that intertwine with the multiple disciples and the current state of the issue. The articles may address analyses about the importance of the Mind Body Medicine in the collective and individual health and its social, psychological, philosophical, political, cultural, existential and spiritual repercussions, in different theoretical perspectives.
This issue intends to promote the debate about the relevance of the Mind Body Medicine in an interdisciplinary perspective that involves health sciences in general and medicine in particular, in dialogue with history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, politics, the arts and the humanities.
Topics:
- Mind Body Medicine and its medical, historical, conceptual, and philosophical basis.
- Mind Body Medicine in the collective and individual health field.
- Mind Body Medicine in the education field.
- Mind Body Medicine in the social repercussions field.
- Mind Body Medicine in the psychological field.
- Mind Body Medicine in the cultural field.
- Mind Body Medicine in the existential and spiritual field.
- Mind Body Medicine and its different theoretical and practical perspectives.
Accepted languages: English and Spanish
Submission deadline: 30 October 2023
Communication of rejection/acceptance deadline: 30 November 2023
Date of publication: 30 December 2023
