title: [The body and its meanings].
abstract: The human body is the natural object of studies, analyses and care in the health field. The Authors, starting from this remark and taking the body language and its meaning into consideration, point out that the body contact allows either to deliver an adequate nursing care or to take off dignity and humanity. A concise review of the human body significance during the course of history makes us aware that, as a matter of fact, the different and opposite conceptions that followed one another haven't made the concept of body definitively clear. Inside the care field, the knowledge and use of the body language--complementary to the verbal one--assumes many different meanings, that can condition the relation process in a substantial way.
authors.affiliation: Facoltà di Medicina e chirurgia, Infermieristica Clinica II.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Minuzzo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guglielmi
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D006801:Humans; D007697:Kinesics; D014110:Touch
vernacular_title: Il corpo e la corporeità. Riflessione dovuta per un operatore sanitario.