A contribuição de Claude Bernard à ecologia médica

• Main Author: Fernando Dias da Avila-Pires
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1976
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Pasteur; Partida; Claude Bernard; Claude-Bernard
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/4b53f71b0c0b45fbabbefb7e20eae8a9

Claude Bemard realizou importante contribuição à Ecologia Médica quando propôs o conceito de "meio interior". Além de permitir a compreensão dos processos fisiológicos fundamentais, constituiu o ponto de partida para o estudo da ecologia endógena dos organismos. Como Shelford e Chapman notaram, nesse nível, a ecologia e a fisiologia têm muito em comum. No nível individual, a ecologia médica preocupa-se com o estudo das relações entre o homem e a microbiota endógena. Claude Bemard identificou os fatores abióticos do meio interno, na época em que Pasteur e Koch identificavam e descreviam os componentes bióticos do microecossistema endógeno. Claude Bemard made an important contribution to medical ecology when he estabíished the concept of "milieu intárieur" - as opposed to that of the external environment. This conception should be viewed not only as a major step for the understanding of physiological processes and homeostasis, but also as a starting point for the study of the endogenous ecology of individual organisms. As Shelford and Chapman have pointed out independentiy, at this level, ecology and physiology have much in common. Medical ecology, at the individual level, involves the study of the interrelationships of man and his individual microbiota. Claude Bemard identified the abiotic factors of the internal environment, at a time when Pasteur and Koch where engaged in the identification and description of the biotic components of the internal ecosystem.