Initiation and Death in Becomig a Doctor = Beavatási jelenségek és a halál az orvossá válás során

Lázár, Imre and Zsinkó-Szabó, Zoltán Levente (2013) Initiation and Death in Becomig a Doctor = Beavatási jelenségek és a halál az orvossá válás során. KALEIDOSCOPE: MŰVELŐDÉS- TUDOMÁNY- ÉS ORVOSTÖRTÉNETI FOLYÓIRAT, 4 (7). pp. 74-84. ISSN 2062-2597

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Abstract

In this paper the authors examine the initiation aspects of „”encountering death”, the first impressions of confrontation with a cadaver in context of the theory of ritual initiations based on the vast literarture of psychological influences exerted by cadavers, abject bodies, human remnants on medical students. We connect these hidden elements of becoming a doctor with the traditional initiation rites incorporating extreme challenges, physical exhaustion and near death experiences, involving issues of distress and confrontation with death at the same time. The common element is the critical change in perception of life and death, while it makes a difference that mysteries enforce belief in the afterlife, and the ”survival” of the ghostly, spiritual or pneumatic content of human existence in spite of the medical confrontation with the death inducing rational reification and objectification/abjectification of the human being. The paradigmatic difference comes from the antagonistic opposition of the sacral (traditional, religious views of the human being) and the secular credo of bioreductionist biomedical view of the human being.The supportive elaboration of this early preclinical experience with the cadaver, as impersonal dead body may help to gain more empathy and respect in the clinical practice and counteract the early burnout of some medical students.

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