Weizsäcker: una medicina antropologicamente orientata

The paper aims at highlighting Viktor von Weizsäcker’s contribution to the foundation of a dialogic medicine, attentive to the anthropological dimension. His main assumptions are the following: medicine is first of all a praxis; illness is a biographic event, a chance, a way to reach new balances, and not a fall that needs a restitutio ad integrum; death is an opportunity that life gives to itself, in order to surpass itself, to evolve; the doctor must promote the relationship with the patient, without falling into the atrophy of Hyperlaboratorismus. All these arguments promote an idea of medicine attentive to the person, to care (not only to healing), and open to the unexpected.