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Capitalism and the ontology of bioethics: the family physician work process in Italy

  • Rita de Cássia Gabrielli Souza Lima
  • Marta Inez Machado Verdi
  • Rita de Cássia Gabrielli Souza Lima

    Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brasil. Doutora em Saúde Coletiva pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Marta Inez Machado Verdi

    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Trindade, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil. Doutora em Enfermagem pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.



Abstract

This paper examines the weaknesses that permeate the interrelationships established in the work process Italian family physicians use to get to know potential ethical conflicts. This field study used a qualitative approach, was exploratory-descriptive in nature, and was conducted in 2007 in the province of Rome, region of Lazio, Italy, among Italian family physicians hired under the National Health Service. Analyzed in the light of everyday bioethics, the results show ethical conflicts generated directly by the health care organization model used by the National Health Service, by the pharmaceutical industry's market, and indirectly by the society, with the backdrop of neoliberal capitalism.

Keywords

family physicians,
bioethics,
capitalism

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