Abstract

AVILA MORALES, JUAN CARLOS. CONSIDERATIONS OF HUMAN FRAGILITY FRONT OF THE MORAL MEDICAL CONDUCT. Rev. Med [online]. 2017, vol.25, n.2, pp.117-125. ISSN 0121-5256.

This article makes part of a doctoral research about evil and maleficence in the medical act, attending in this text the moral considerations around the medical practice, which include aspects related with human fragility, it's relationship with the medical praxis and the doctor's moral demeanor reach. By hermeneutical method for the interpretation of the found documents an analytical approach is made about the topic, finding that from the point of view of philosophical ethics, there is a great diversity of bioethic thoughts applied in health, based on respect for every human being. It is necessary to consider as a part of the bioethic analysis (around the doctor and patient relationship, the decisions' nature and the medical knowledge) the concepts theorized from philosophy, taking into account that in the practice of medicine the ethical reviews, can be related with the ethical struggles emerged at the meeting of principles and values of medicine versus the autonomy and desires of the patients.

The techological and knwoledge developments that encompasses science (episteme) and art (techne) of medicine, joined with the changes in the view of the relationship between patient and doctor and the dimensions of the medical act (anthropological, discipline and social determinants) have led to the professional's indifference in front of suffering, pain, fragility and vulnerability of people (patients). It is necessary that the doctor ponder about the concepts of compassion, solidarity and responsibility among the others, to try to reestablish health and to heal the ill, and even if can't be done, the doctor might help and care in matters of the patient's pain and vulnerability. This could base the exercise of the profession among other considerations in the Kantian imperative, to the extent that the health professional to act in such a way that the maxim of the action can be willed as a maximum universal.

Keywords : Bioethics; Fragility; Moral; Dehumanization; General medicine.

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