title: Human vulnerability.
abstract: We consider essential when addressing human vulnerability, to perceive it under two diverse prisms, therefore, complementary: the individual and the collective. The first part will present the human being as the protagonist isolated from this circumstance and it will be performed in the first person, in a nearly colloquial manner. One's vulnerability, while a part of a social network, will be addressed in the second part of the text. It will not be difficult to realize how the individual on the condition of autonomous being or integrated element in a wide social network dies of the same illness, which seems to be a strong characteristic of post-modernity.
authors.affiliation: l'Université de São Paulo - USP, Brésil.
authors.forename: José Eduardo
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: De Siqueira
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Segre
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D001675:Bioethics; D001938:Brazil; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005086:Existentialism; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000941:ethics*; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D012945:Social Values; D035862:Vulnerable Populations