RE-EMBODYING MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR HUMANISED CARE: BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, INCLUSION AND NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Martina Petrini

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The article reflects on the challenges currently shaping the education of health professionals in light of recent technological and social transformations, characterised by the development of artificial intelligence and increasing systemic complexity. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of body pedagogics and embodied cognition, it highlights the need to restore centrality to the subjective corporeal dimension in both professional education and the care relationship, in order to promote an experience of care genuinely oriented toward the person.


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Body pedagocics; narrative medicine; care relationship; inclusivity; technology.

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