{"title":"L’ethos palliatif","authors":"Tom De Koninck","doi":"10.7202/1074679AR","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Our purpose is to bring out to what extent palliative care remains the central pivot insuring concretely, in the last analysis, the effective recognition of the dignity of the human person, namely her or his absolute dignity as an end, lending its ultimate meaning to the entire health profession. THOMAS DE KONINCK 170 Persons in a situation of extreme fragility, or suffering or handicap, prove, in addition, to be extraordinary awakeners to humanity, pure and simple. The model to keep in mind is that of the Good Samaritan.","PeriodicalId":128626,"journal":{"name":"Théologiques","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Théologiques","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1074679AR","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Our purpose is to bring out to what extent palliative care remains the central pivot insuring concretely, in the last analysis, the effective recognition of the dignity of the human person, namely her or his absolute dignity as an end, lending its ultimate meaning to the entire health profession. THOMAS DE KONINCK 170 Persons in a situation of extreme fragility, or suffering or handicap, prove, in addition, to be extraordinary awakeners to humanity, pure and simple. The model to keep in mind is that of the Good Samaritan.