L’OSPEDALE UMANIZZATO. PERCORSI, STRUMENTI E PROSPETTIVE PER UNA SANITÀ CENTRATA SULLA PERSONA

Abstract

In an era marked by extraordinary technological evolution and increasing fragmentation of care processes, the crucial challenge of contemporary healthcare no longer lies solely in clinical efficacy, but in the ability to safeguard humanity within places of care. This volume, which involves a range of professionals from various disciplines, stems from the awareness that humanization is not an abstract ideal, but a rigorous and multidisciplinary practice. Through a fruitful dialogue between nursing, sociology, architecture, and the humanities, this work explores the hospital as a vital space where technology must necessarily meet relationship. The beating heart of this volume's reflection is Human Caring Science. Inspired by Jean Watson’s paradigm, the text promotes a vision of care as a transpersonal relationship, founded on loving-kindness, authentic presence, and the recognition of the other in their entirety of body, mind, and spirit. From the analysis of national guidelines to the design of healing gardens, from international models like Planetree to scientific tools for measuring perceived quality, and the necessary encounter between nursing and sociological reflection, this book offers scholars, students, and health professionals a complete map for transforming healthcare facilities into authentic communities of care. It is an invitation to rediscover that the time for care is, above all, a time for relationship.