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