Abstract

CRESPO-GARRIDO, S. Humanization in the art of healing: the ethical dimension of the pharmacist. Rev. OFIL·ILAPHAR [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.1, pp.75-77.  Epub Nov 21, 2022. ISSN 1699-714X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/s1699-714x20220001000013.

There is no activity more recognized as conjectural art, since the most remote centuries, than the therapeutic one since on it rests the most precious good of our earthly life, health, as he said, in the art of healing Hahnemann in the Organon. Hippocrates also established that disease is a "nosos", or way of making each patient sick. The term: "therapy" comes from the Greek and means servant. But, nowadays, given the "invasion" of technology, he becomes a "servant of technology" and that which was destined to serve him becomes his owner and subordinates himself to the instruments, forgetting the patient in front of him, with his life story. If man is a sacred thing for man, man must not harm him and the pharmacist must pay attention to the sufferings of the patient according to his physical, spiritual, psychological and social needs. The human being cannot be reduced to what technology can detect, as it has something mysterious and unique only perceptible by another human being. On the other hand, if the technique is subordinated and becomes a servant, it becomes human, because the purpose of the health professions is the healing and suppression, as far as possible, of pain, and implies the vocation, and the sense of the profession. Hence the importance of self-regulation and codes of ethics in the pharmaceutical profession.

Keywords : Pharmaceutical; health; disease; humanization; therapeutic; drug; ethics.

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