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Ethics and medicine in Michel Foucault: the humanistic dimension of medicine derived from a genealogy of morality .

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The article presents the results of a doctoral dissertation defended at the Universidad de Salamanca, based on Foucault's final decade of writings. If Foucault's goal in writing The History of Sexuality was to fashion a genealogy of ethics, my goal in analyzing this book, along with his other writings, is to demonstrate his last contribution to the history of medicine. He moves from a conception of power over others towards a conception of power over oneself, an exclusive terrain of ancient Greek morality. As a thinker who tries to understand today's problems by going to their roots, Foucault develops less a history than a philosophy of history. Considered an anti-humanist, he leaves us with a portrait of a wholly ethical-humanistic medicine.

Year of Publication
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1969
Journal
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Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos
Volume
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12
Issue
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3
Number of Pages
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717-34
Date Published
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1969
ISSN Number
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0104-5970
DOI
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10.1590/s0104-59702005000300005
Short Title
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Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
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