Treating strangeness: Medicine and human dignity at the time of COVID-19

The concomitance of a migratory wave and the hospital crisis once again raises the question of the care that the French healthcare system is able to provide to migrants. On the occasion of SFFEM's 19th annual day, we present a synthesis of the research work that has been communicated at that ti...

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Published inEthics, medicine, and public health Vol. 18; p. 100659
Main Authors Hervé, C., Duguet, A.-M., Georges, C., Golse, B., Cordier, B., Galichon, B., Zarzavadjian Le Bian, A., Alasseur, E., Stœklé, H.-C., Gaillard, M., Emmanuelli, X., Emery, S., Di, C., Jault-seseke, F., Perez, S., Bouffard, C., Bommier, C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published France Elsevier Masson SAS 01.09.2021
Subjects
COVID19
Dignity
Ethics
Hospital
Humanity
Migrants
Dignity
Ethics
Humanity
COVID19
Migrants
Hospital
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Summary:The concomitance of a migratory wave and the hospital crisis once again raises the question of the care that the French healthcare system is able to provide to migrants. On the occasion of SFFEM's 19th annual day, we present a synthesis of the research work that has been communicated at that time. Firstly, we will discuss how doctors have been able to overcome strangeness to revive the notion of hospitality according to Levinas; secondly, we will discuss how the hospital is departing from its mission of institutional hospitality because of administrative injunctions; thirdly, we will discuss how ethnomedicine gives us keys to open up to other cultural norms; fourthly, we will see the inadequacy that exists between rights of access to medical care and their effectiveness; finally, the conclusion of Xavier Emmanuelli, founder of the social ambulance service, will remind us how much the values of the French Republic call us to the notion of care and openness to otherness.
ISSN:2352-5525
2352-5525
DOI:10.1016/j.jemep.2021.100659