Ethics and medicine in Michel Foucault: the humanistic dimension of medicine derived from a genealogy of morality .
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| Abstract | :  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. | 
| Year of Publication | :  1969 | 
| Journal | :  Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos | 
| Volume | :  12 | 
| Issue | :  3 | 
| Number of Pages | :  717-34 | 
| Date Published | :  1969 | 
| ISSN Number | :  0104-5970 | 
| DOI | :  10.1590/s0104-59702005000300005 | 
| Short Title | :  Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos | 
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