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FERNANDES DE FREITAS, Genival  e  SILES GONZALEZ, José. Anthropology and caring in the view of Saint John of God. Index Enferm [online]. 2008, vol.17, n.2, pp.144-148. ISSN 1699-5988.

This is a historical and social study has the objective to contribute to a critical reflection involving the origin and development of caring culture in the social-political and religious contextualization of Spanish Renaissance (century XVI), with the prospect of mendicant order of Saint John of God. Humanistic or anthropological Philosophy of Nursing, in this perspective, signified a holistic attention to needs of patients ruled in the binomial hospitality and humanization of care nursing.

Palavras-chave : History; Nursing; Culture; Caring.