The pact of care in the patient - professional of the visual and ocular health (PVOH) relation: a reading from Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

From the horizon of the hermeneutic philosophy, the present writing will indicate some guidelines of interpretation around the Pact of Care, which, according to Ricoeur, is the foundation of the medical ethics and that is clearly an obligatory topic for the Professional of the Visual and Ocular Health (PVOH). In the first part, we will show the Ricoeur’s relation between previous ethical concepts and later ethical norms. In the second part, we will introduce some considerations on the relation between patient and PVOH as for the Pact of Care, according to two of their constituent elements: the confidence and the alliance. Finally, some guidelines of understanding will be suggested to fortify the confidence that constitutes the mentioned pact between the patient and the PVOH.