[Ethics and medicine in Michel Foucault: the humanistic dimension of medicine derived from a genealogy of morality].
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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Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade de Pernambuco, FCM/FENSG/UPE, Av. Boa Viagem 4.70, ap. 1.204 51.021-000 Recife, PE, Brasil. benjamimgomes@hotmail.com
D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D018645:Greek World / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006808:Humanism / Q000266:history*; D009014:Morals; D019529:Sexuality / Q000941:ethics / Q000266:history*