Spain and the Doctors
Historical Theories as Diagnoses in National Psychopathology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Luis Fernández Vega (0000-0001-9197-2283, Universidad de Cantabria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 693-714 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tempo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1413-7704 • E-ISSN: 1980-542X |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/tem-1980-542x2019v250309 |
| OpenAlex | W2980926225 |
| SCIELO_PID | S1413-77042019000300693 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
There has been among historians, philosophers, and semioticians a growing awareness of the theoretical strata involved in the writing of history. Within historical narratives we can find at least three major levels of theory: (i) the naming of events according to everyday concepts; (ii) the interpretation of the class of plot best fitted to the web of events to be narrated; and (iii) the implicit or explicit formal framework employed for systematic narrative. Like medical diagnosis, history applies general knowledge to singular situations; like history, medicine describes events, creates storylines, and draws on general models. This likeness is politically relevant when history is taken as another, higher kind of diagnosis: that of a national malaise in need of political cure. As an empirical case, we analyze a number of historical theories formulated as historical diagnoses in traumatic twentieth-century Spain, and then test the link between theories and therapies
Epistemology · Linguistics · Medical diagnosis · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Sociology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Mathematics · Medicine · Neurology and Historical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |