[The mask and the face of a profession]

These pages criticize those forms of extreme medicalization that support a fragmented and sectional health anthropology. They declare the importance of the nursing profession as a methodologic discipline based on the help relationship. Furthermore, these pages call back towards social and anthropologic "vocation", like in the beginning. Such vocation allows to approach the ill patient in his/her totality. It also antagonizes contemporary medical philosophy, which has produced the patient-machine standing on a functionalist and purely instrumental business culture of therapy and care.