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Manuel Sans Segarra | |
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| Born | April 25, 1943 |
| Occupations | Physician; surgeon |
Manuel Sans Segarra (born 25 April 1943) is a Spanish physician and surgeon who served as Head of Digestive Surgery at Bellvitge University Hospital in Barcelona.[1]
Medical and academic career
[edit]Sans Segarra studied medicine and surgery at the University of Barcelona.[2] He completed a doctoral thesis on esophageal cancer, which was awarded cum laude.[3]
He later served as Head of Digestive Surgery at Bellvitge University Hospital.[4] He also held academic appointments as an Associate Professor of General and Digestive Surgery at the University of Barcelona.[5]
In 2014, he received the Professional Excellence Award from the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona.[6]
In May 2025, he was admitted as a Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors.[7]
Public activities
[edit]A 2024 profile published by El Mundo described Sans Segarra in connection with public talks addressing death and immortality.[1] He has also discussed near-death experiences and consciousness in an interview broadcast by RTVE (RNE).[8]
Research interests
[edit]According to interviews in Spanish media, Sans Segarra has focused part of his later public work on near-death experiences (NDEs).[9] In these interviews, he has described his interest as emerging from clinical cases involving patients who were resuscitated after cardiac arrest.[10]
In public discussions, he has been associated with views describing a form of consciousness that is not limited to brain activity, which he refers to as “supraconsciousness”.[11]
Criticism
[edit]Some authors have cited Sans Segarra in broader critiques of the use of concepts from quantum mechanics in non-physical contexts. These critiques describe such approaches as examples of quantum mysticism and question their scientific basis.[12]
Selected works
[edit]- La acigografía en el cáncer de esófago (doctoral thesis, 1976).
- La Supraconciencia Existe: Vida después de la vida. Planeta, 2024. ISBN 978-84-08-29128-2.
- Ego y Supraconsciencia: Buscando el sentido de la vida. Planeta, 2025. ISBN 978-84-08-30740-2.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Ricardo F. Colmenero; Alberto Di Lolli (18 September 2024). "The strange case of the prestigious surgeon who fills theatres with his defence of immortality". El Mundo. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Successful lecture by Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra". Ilustre Colegio de Médicos de Guadalajara. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ "La acigografía en el cáncer de esófago". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ Conde, Sergio (2023-04-24). "Manuel Sans Segarra: "La muerte física no es el final, existen pruebas científicas que lo demuestran"". La Región (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ "Surgeon Manuel Sans Segarra discusses near-death experiences". eXtramuros. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ "Professional Excellence Awards 2014". Official College of Physicians of Barcelona. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ "Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra". Royal European Academy of Doctors. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ "Manuel Sans Segarra: "Our supraconsciousness is holistic"". RTVE. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ "The surgeon who investigates life after death". El Español. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ "Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra explains supraconsciousness". Onda Cero. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ "Dr. Sans Segarra, the physician who investigates immortality". El Plural. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ↑ Celso M. Aldao; Daniel A. Mirabella (2023). "On the charlatanism of quantum mysticism". Pensar. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
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