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Since their beginnings, medical sciences have known a long and complex history, made up of evolutionary stages oriented towards what today is defined as humanized medicine. And it was precisely the patient’s recognition of the right to freedom of choice and treatment that saw in him no longer and only the image of the objectification of the disease, rather than recognizing its human nature as an inseparable unity of body and mind, placed in a space-time causal dimension in which even the knowledge of his experience can contribute to a more careful and precise diagnosis.
From this premise the discourse evolves towards two directions: on the one hand towards the treatment of one of the greatest exponents of medical anthropology, V. von Weizsaecker, whose reflection on the antithetical nature between care and treatment has laid the foundations for a new relationship doctor-patient better known as I-You; on the other hand, towards the ethical and legal consequences deriving from the recognition of the patient’s right to freedom of choice and treatment, including the issue of suicide, the nature of which - still unclear today - continues to classify it as a disorder of the DSM- 5.
A further consideration concerns the Neocasistics which in the diagnosis and treatment provides an essential contribution through the comparative analysis of similar or similar clinical cases.
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Billeri, I., Dadà, S., Giunta, F. (2023). The Medical Doing on the Person. In: Pingitore, A., Iacono, A.M. (eds) The Patient as a Person. New Paradigms in Healthcare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23852-9_7
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