par Devaux, Franck
Référence Revue médicale de Bruxelles, 46, 4, page (444-452)
Publication Publié, 2025-09-01
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : Contemporary medicine is marked by a deep contradiction: While it continues to grow in knowledge and technology, it increasingly forgets those who sustain it. Healthcare professionals, long perceived as invulnerable, are in fact exposed to profound suffering, driven by constant demands for availability, self-sacrifice, and endurance. This vulnerability-structural and existential-is neither acknowledged nor supported. It is repressed under the weight of a sacrificial ideal inherited from the 19th century, and reinforced by a fragmented, technicalized work organization that ignores the relational core of care. Against this backdrop, Joan Tronto's ethics of care offers a valuable ethical and political framework: It reminds us that care is not a task, but a commitment to navigate vulnerability together, within a network of shared responsibilities. Caring for caregivers is therefore a democratic imperative: Not merely to prevent burnout, but to ensure the very quality of care by upholding the dignity of those who provide it. A healthcare system that destroys its caregivers betrays its own promise. To restore meaning to care is to rebuild our institutions on the foundations of attentiveness, justice, and mutual recognition. And perhaps, finally, to respond to the essential question: Whom do we care for, and at what cost?

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