Síntesis histórica de la praxis médica del anciano

MUNOA ROIZ, José Luis

Publication year:

2003

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1577-8533

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Summary

The concept of vital evolution is analysed here with reference to health, to the options proposed by medicine in various periods of history and depending on cultural and scientific evolution. Preventive and therapeutic resources that are a proposed in each period are analysed. Medical and letter a texts complement the notion of the matter. The problem of the increase of elderly people and their adequate and fair care is one of the most debated matters in current society.