Philosophy in the Medical Humanities: toward a structural dialogue with Psychology

Philosophy is called upon to provide the Medical Humanities with the conceptual framework that allows us to conceive of care as a relationship, highlighting categories such as personhood, vulnerability, the common good, and justice, and bringing to light the anthropological assumptions implicit in clinical practice. In this proposal, philosophy does not play a decorative role, but rather takes on the task of identifying and articulating the questions of meaning that permeate practice, safeguarding the question of the good and guiding discernment in complex decisions. Precisely for this reason, philosophy is placed at the center of a structural interdisciplinary dialogue with constructivist psychology and the other humanities, offering the shared lexicon within which narrative practices, the arts, and the social sciences can work together on the same experience of care, without being reduced to mere optional additions to biomedical curricula.