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V. 65 N. 3 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2016.436
"Il Piccolo Principe" e la Medicina dell'Invisibile: relazione, organizzazione e prevenzione / "The Little Prince" and the Invisible Medicine: relationship, organization and prevention
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In this paper, we attempt to look at four bioethical issues through the Little Prince's eyes: the end-life context, the patient-physician relationship, the organization ethics, the prevention/precaution. We will use a perspective we have called "Medicine of the Invisible", that is value-focused. The Little Prince suggests us to seek the invisible as a new type of 'clinical data' which may help to make the healthcare intervention more ethical and effective. Such an invisible - the "thing that is important", the "matters of consequence", even on a gnoseological and epistemological level - is attainable only within a relationship. Therefore, the physician needs to be tamed by the patient, and the patient by the physician - each one becoming responsible of the other, each one becoming himself through the dialogue with the other. But responsibility also means attention towards the future, against threats to life that are still unseen and unknown. Indeed, the Little Prince teaches us that owning a part of the world - the "useful possession" - entails the ethical imperative to act, in order to safeguard life. But, without the concreteness of a relationship - saturated with lived time, shared experiences, and individual's uniqueness - no meaning and no value is given. For this reason the Medicine of Invisible reminds Bioethics that «the thing that is important is the thing that is not seen».
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"Il Piccolo Principe" e la Medicina dell’Invisibile: relazione, organizzazione e prevenzione / "The Little Prince" and the Invisible Medicine: relationship, organization and prevention. (2016). Medicina e Morale, 65(3), 275-291. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2016.436
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