https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2016.435

Un vaccino sicuro (safe) e convincente (persuasive). Considerazioni etico-narrative in tema di sanità pubblica / A safe and convincing vaccination. Ethical-narrative considerations on public health

V. 65 N. 3 (2016)
Pubblicato: settembre 21, 2016
Igiene, cinema, sicurezza/incolumità, sanità pubblica, bioetica narrativa, persuasione / Hygiene, safeness, public health, narrative bioethics, persuasion
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Paolo M. Cattorini
paolo.cattorini@uninsubria.it
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Scuola di Medicina, Varese, Italy.
Il significato di termini storicamente importanti, come igiene, sanità pubblica, medicina delle comunità, è divenuto controverso, vago e persino contraddittorio nel contesto pluralistico attuale, in cui il paternalismo è tramontato, un dialogo esigente viene richiesto tra biomedicina e humanities, e in cui la nozione stessa di pratica clinica attraversa una crisi profonda. Sono presentati e commentati in questo articolo due recenti film, che rappresentano le preoccupazioni etico-psicologiche e i dilemmi morali dei personaggi (professionisti o comuni utenti). Lo scopo della scelta stilistico-espositiva, operata dall'autore, è quello di accendere una rinnovata avvertenza per i valori in conflitto e di favorire una giustificazione razionale delle opzioni sanitarie, sia a livello individuale che pubblico. La narrazione è una componente imprescindibile dei criteri e metodi decisionali, anche in materia igienistica, e quindi va considerata ed elaborata con proprietà e competenza.
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The meaning of ancient words (hygiene, public health, welfare, community medicine) has become confused, vague and even contradictory in our contemporary pluralistic arena, where the paternalism has declined, a new dialogue between biomedicine and humanities is required, and the idea itself of medicine is going through a difficult crisis. Two motion pictures are presented, examined and commented, in order to underline the psychological concerns and the ethical dilemmas of the moral agents involved (both professionals and lay people). The author shows how an ethical awareness might be raised, for the sake of rationally justifying the aims, methods and criteria of a shared decision inside the community about delicate issues in public health. In particular, narrative can help us to take sound and just social and medical choices.

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Cattorini, P. M. (2016). Un vaccino sicuro (safe) e convincente (persuasive). Considerazioni etico-narrative in tema di sanità pubblica / A safe and convincing vaccination. Ethical-narrative considerations on public health. Medicina E Morale, 65(3), 243–273. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2016.435

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