Of Ivan Cavicchi | 8 May 2013 |
One of the ideas on which I have worked a lot in recent years concerns the profound transformation of the classic figure of "patient”. It is not a question of a simple cultural change, that is of someone who is more informed because he consults e-health before going to the doctor, but of something more complex and deeper and which synthesizes many changes. Starting from the Second World War, a new question of health took shape, a different conception of protection, the affirmation of rights, a new ontological conception of the person, the emancipation of the patient from his historical subjections, including scientific ones, and finally to follow an important series of reform laws.
I summed up the transformation of the “patient” with the word “demanding” also to express the famous post-modernity, that is a society of people who rethink the certainties of the past, their paradigms, their truths, their customs, not so much to deny them but to recontextualize them in change. The demanding person is a citizen who reinterprets the medicine he uses. Nothing more.
