HISTORIA DEL SUICIDIO
El lado oscuro en la Historia de la Medicina
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https://doi.org/10.62701/revmedica.v13.5477Keywords:
Suicide history, Medicalization, Psychiatry, Public health, Medical humanitiesAbstract
Suicide has been interpreted in multiple ways throughout history, shifting between moral condemnation, philosophical reflection, and progressive medicalization. In Antiquity, physicians and philosophers addressed it as an act related to the health of the soul and body; during the Middle Ages, the dominant theological view criminalized it. With modernity, emerging psychiatry redefined suicide as a pathology, consolidating its study in the nineteenth century. Today, it is understood as a public health issue, where medicine, sociology, and ethics converge in an ongoing debate.
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