INTEGRALITY OF HEALTH CARE FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OF EMMANUEL LÉVINAS

• Autor(a) principal: Penha, Jaiza Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Marques, Mayane Cristina Pereira, de Sousa, Santana de Maria Alves, Passos, Helder Machado, Pinheiro, Patricia Neyva da Costa, Ferreira, Adriana Gomes Nogueira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Enfermagem Atual In Derme
• Texto Completo: https://revistaenfermagematual.com/index.php/revista/article/view/1306
• topic: Assistência Integral à Saúde.; Enfermagem.; Enfermagem Holística; Filosofia; Integralidade em saúde; Comprehensive Health Care; Nursing; Holistic Nursing; Philosophy; Integrality in health; Atención Integral de Salud; Enfermería; Enfermería Holística.; Filosofia; Integralidad em salud.

Objective: To reflect the comprehensiveness of health care from the perspective of Levinasian philosophical thought. Method: Reflective theoretical study carried out through non-systematic electronic searches, critical reading of the works of the author and other scholars who investigated Levinasian ideas. Results: The comprehensiveness of health care proposes a broader look at the individual, respecting their uniqueness (alterity), desires, beliefs, considering their autonomy, through actions focused on their valuation as a subject. For Levinás, ethics, the first philosophy, is born in the face-to-face relationship between the self and the other (professional-patient), in which the latter presents itself as a face, as an absolute otherness, which requires care and responsibility. Conclusions: Levinasian thinking refers to a context in which the individual is at the center of attention, regardless of the disease, correctly and scientifically guides health work, emphasizing comprehensive care as a dialogical practice in which the other, as a patient, he is co-responsible for care. This reflection may motivate professionals and researchers to observe comprehensiveness in health from a philosophical perspective based on concepts defined by Emmanuél Lévinas.