El cáncer es una enfermedad multisintomática que afecta a gran parte de la población a nivel mundial y en los últimos años ha ido en aumento. La experiencia de los familiares cuidadores proporciona información acerca del cuidado y atención que recibe el enfermo terminal. Se propuso como marco interpretativo la fenomenología hermenéutica de Heidegger. El objetivo de este artículo fue conocer, a partir del relato de los familiares, las necesidades médicas, psicológicas, sociales, espirituales de los pacientes con cáncer terminal. Se realizaron 11 entrevistas a familiares en la Ciudad de México. Se llevaron a cabo transcripciones y se utilizó el análisis temático y el método de van Manen. Se encontró que los cuidados paliativos en la etapa final de la enfermedad no son proporcionados en todos los casos. Se da prioridad por cubrir las necesidades médicas que se centran en el control del dolor, dejando de lado las necesidades psicológicas, sociales y espirituales. Estas últimas son solucionadas por la propia familia. Es necesaria atención integral a los enfermos desde diversas disciplinas, siempre velando por la dignidad y bienestar al final de la vida.
Cartesian dualism and the union of mind and body are often understood as conceptions that contradict each other. Diachronic interpretations maintain that Descartes was first a dualist (in the Meditations) and later on developed his stance on the union of mind and body (Passions). Some authors find here a problem without solution. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, some interpretations have been developed intending to give a positive solution to the difficult relation between Cartesian dualism and the union of mind and body. The problem that I find in most of them is that they try to show no incoherence between Descartes' dualism and his conception of the union and interaction by "weakening" or making more "flexible" the dualist doctrine. I develop a synchronic interpretation, based on textual evidence, in order to show that dualism and union appeared simultaneously in Descartes' works. Under this perspective, my claim is that Cartesian radical dualism and the union of mind and body can be coherently understood only because they belong to different domains of knowledge. Thought and matter are clear and distinct primitive notions that come from reason, whose role is laying the foundations for Cartesian metaphysics and physics, while the primitive notion of union is acquired by the senses and lacks clarity and distinction even while it serves the objective of founding Descartes' moral philosophy.
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