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Descriptor English: Empiricism
Descriptor Spanish: Empirismo
Descriptor empirismo
Scope note: Una de las principales escuelas de la filosofía médica en la Grecia y Roma antiguas. Se desarrolló en Alejandría entre el 270 y 220 a.C., y es la única que logró con éxito reavivar la esencia de la doctrina hipocrática. Los empiristas declararon que la búsqueda de las causas fundamentales de los fenómenos era infructuosa, pero eran activos buscadores de las causas inmediatas. El "trípode de la empírica" consistía en sus propias observaciones casuales (experiencia), el conocimiento obtenido de predecesores y contemporáneos (experiencia ajena) y, en el caso de nuevas enfermedades, la elaboración de conclusiones a partir de otras enfermedades a las que se parecían (analogía). El empirismo gozó de una popularidad esporádica que persistió en los siglos posteriores hasta el XIX. (Traducción libre del original: Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p186; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
Descriptor Portuguese: Empirismo
Descriptor French: Empirisme
Tree number(s): K01.752.667.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019348
Scope note: One of the principal schools of medical philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome. It developed in Alexandria between 270 and 220 B.C., the only one to have any success in reviving the essentials of the Hippocratic concept. The Empiricists declared that the search for ultimate causes of phenomena was vain, but they were active in endeavoring to discover immediate causes. The "tripod of the Empirics" was their own chance observations (experience), learning obtained from contemporaries and predecessors (experience of others), and, in the case of new diseases, the formation of conclusions from other diseases which they resembled (analogy). Empiricism enjoyed sporadic continuing popularity in later centuries up to the nineteenth. (From Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p186; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 33192
Unique ID: D019348
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Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 1999/11/08
Empiricism - Preferred
Concept UI M0028801
Scope note One of the principal schools of medical philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome. It developed in Alexandria between 270 and 220 B.C., the only one to have any success in reviving the essentials of the Hippocratic concept. The Empiricists declared that the search for ultimate causes of phenomena was vain, but they were active in endeavoring to discover immediate causes. The "tripod of the Empirics" was their own chance observations (experience), learning obtained from contemporaries and predecessors (experience of others), and, in the case of new diseases, the formation of conclusions from other diseases which they resembled (analogy). Empiricism enjoyed sporadic continuing popularity in later centuries up to the nineteenth. (From Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p186; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
Preferred term Empiricism



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