[Bioethics and internal medicine]

Medicine should concern also with theoretical and practical aspects of Bioethics. In fact, in medical research and in clinical practice Bioethics knowledges are essential. A cultural project is underlined. We will neglect the method of reductionism, whereas we will consider the holistic one. We will consider also the real significance of specialisations, so that their role become ancillary to Internal Medicine. Particularly, we should try to find and define some fundamental principles which consider the man on a realistic anthropology, a point of view, where the whole has its importance. Medicine should be seen sub specie totius. In fact the best ethical theory seems to be the ontologically founded personalism, which, through its principles, represents the classic and realistic conception of the man. The person is unity, the whole and not a part of the whole. Furthermore, we propose to discover the virtues ethic. The physicians should not ask themselves: "What have I to do?", but "What kind of physicians do I want to become?" The relations between medicine and Bioethics will produce important results, which through the integral Humanism of medicine, will be reflect on the integral physic and psychic health of each patient and on the integrity of our profession. For these reasons Internal Medicine, which is structured on an holistic epistemology, with its cultural and experimental traditions, should not disappoint to concern with Bioethics and its problems.