Care as Expression of Humanity Reflections on the Concept of Care in A. MacIntyre and its Relationship to Health Professions

Abstract

This article provides a reflection about the concept of «care», from philosophy, for it to develop in relation with the ethics of the sanitary professions, as in relation with the development of certain practices as with the reflection and theoretical configuration that is in the basis, especially from the field of the bioethics. With regard to the philosophical dimension of the concept in question, this will be seen from the perspective of a notable contemporary author: Alasdair MacIntyre, whose approaches allow a nutritional analysis about the possibilities and certain restrictions in relation with the reflection proposed.