Bøger af Leonardo Strejilevich

This book aims to rescue the subjectivity, the spirituality of the human person, whatever the scientific or non-scientific positions that claim to define and characterise it. Subjectivity constitutes at least half of man's destiny. The health of this subjectivity will determine the possibility of well-being, of realising projects, of sustaining values, of having a share of happiness. Today, we should react against the application of an excessively analytical and mechanistic science that biologises the soul too much but, at the same time, try not to fall into the risky opposite of psychologising the physical to the extreme. The purpose of medicine is not to produce pathology but to cure or improve the sick, even if many treatments have little connection with morbid phenomena and their explanations. The reinstatement of the sciences of the spirit and the relationships of the whole of life should always be part of the foundations of a holistic medicine for people. The outer world and the inner world are inseparably linked in our brains.

"Gerontogeriatric Essays" adds new insights into the problems of aging of people individually and in the society in which they live. Older adults are in themselves a biopsychosocial, cultural, economic and political complex. The demographic explosion of the elderly is an irreversible and growing phenomenon, and it goes without saying that the duty of states and societies to provide all the means and instruments to support, care for, cure, rehabilitate and respect them, regardless of their ethnic, religious, socio-cultural and socio-economic condition or identity, is unrenounceable. The ultimate meaning of these essays is to show, once again, real aspects of the multidimensional world of old age in order to understand it and to commit, support and sustain their welfare in the last stage of life.

The testimony, the reflection, the memory and the corsi e ricorsi in which history does not advance in a linear way pushed by progress, but in the form of cycles that repeat themselves, that is to say, that always imply advances and setbacks. What is currently presented, comes to place the pendulum on notes that typified cycles already lived. The events of humanity are and will always be the ingredients of our personal history, as a society, as a generation.The contents of this book are nothing more than articles with the intention of short essays that have been published in newspapers in different periods more or less current that try to show burning issues that affect people.

War, a fateful mixture of misuse of power followed by destruction and death, has been naturalized for centuries in human societies. War involves all citizens, uses armaments that force and demand a modification of the whole economy to produce them and that are used in large quantities to destroy and kill and that totally transform the lives of the participants.Worse even than the horrors of war are its consequences; it seems that in war, loss of life, other costs and politics do not matter. The increased brutality in war is due to the release of the latent human potential for cruelty and violence that war legitimizes.