medigraphic.com
ISSN 0185-3252 (Print)
Revista de la Asociación Médica del Centro Médico ABC

2002, Number 2

<< Back Next >>

An Med Asoc Med Hosp ABC 2002; 47 (2)

Sickness and suffering. Science and humanism in medical practice

Martínez CF

Language: Spanish
References: 5
Page: 112-117
PDF size: 39.48 Kb.


ABSTRACT

In order to talk about medical humanism we have to consider the patient as a person. The basis of medical humanism is Medical Anthropology with clinical orientation. Consider the patient as a person suffering the loss of physical, psychical and social well-being. The humanistic orientation of the physician manifests itself with the recognition of the existence and importance of the patient’s suffering and the ethical valuation of the patient as a person.


REFERENCES

  1. Ricoeur P. Soi-meme comme un autre. París: Editions du Seuil, 1990: 46.

  2. Moratalla AD. Un humanismo del siglo XX: el personalismo. Madrid: Editorial Cincel, 1985: 201

  3. Op Cit p. 200.

  4. Balint M. The doctor, his patient and the illness. 2a wd. Londres Pitman Paper Books, 1968.

  5. Aristóteles. Ética Nicomaquea. Versión española y notas de Antonio Gómez Robledo. México: UNAM, 1954.




2020     |     www.medigraphic.com