The exercise of alterity by lévinas in ethical decision-making in medicine under the technological perspective

Abstract

The dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship, and, consequently, of clinical decision-making, has undergone several changes throughout history, since it reflects the transformations that are characteristic of humanity. Therefore, new challenges have arisen for medicine, as well as new paradigms and new ethical dilemmas. Despite the benefits of greater technical precision achieved, the deliberation was impaired – one can observe a tendency towards the expansion of the objective bias due to the overvaluation of the technique and its consequent overlapping over the subjective bias; in this way, the conversation that forms the basis of the doctor-patient relationship is suppressed. This new paradigm in medical practice assumes its ethical study and analysis, with the
aim of understanding and humanizing the decision-making process in medicine. The present study is classified as a bibliographical research of analytical-critical character