title: [The patient-physician relationship: towards humanization of medical practice].
abstract: Based on a literature review, this article discusses the physician-patient relationship by presenting anthropological and communicational approaches, physicians' experiences as patients, key concepts showing the need for humanization of the patient-physician relationship, and some theoretical-philosophical reflections relating primarily to hermeneutics. Based on this framework, one can already identify a series of possibilities for implementing humanizing proposals. The challenge now is to classify, publish, and evaluate these proposals.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Saúde Comunitária, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Rua Costa Mendes 1608, 5 andar, Fortaleza, CE 60430-097, Brasil.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caprara
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Franco
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations