| Libertà di cura tra “medicina ufficiale” e “medicine alternative”. Prime riflessioni per una comparazione fra gli ordinamenti italiano e inglese |
| Fascicolo 2001-1 |
| Scritto da Piciocchi Cinzia |
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Sommario 1. Introduzione. – 2. Analisi dei diritti e appartenenze sistemologiche: convergenza degli ordinamenti considerati. – 3. Definizioni. – 4. Gli ordinamenti italiano ed inglese. – 4.1. Libertà di prestazione della cura e medicina ufficiale pubblica. – 4.2. Libertà di prestazione della cura e medicina ufficiale privata. – 5. Libertà di ricezione della cura: da libertà negativa a libertà positiva. – 6. Conclusioni.
Abstract The article compares the freedom of choice between “official” and “alternative” medicine in the Italian and English legal systems. While the Italian health system is often seen as “monopolistic” in England it is viewed as being “tolerant”. The apparently stricter regulation of medical practice in Italy – seen in the different roles played by the General Medical Council and the Ordine dei Medici – seems to stress this point, though a detailed analysis leads to different conclusions. Two main issues – the level of legal rationalisation of the phenomenon and the consequent necessity of considering a plurality of elements concurring to outline the therapeutic freedom – arise in both the systems. After defining “official” and “alternative” medicine, the paper focuses on two aspects of therapeutic freedom; the freedom of the practitioner and the freedom of the patient. Discrepancies between the law and its application are primarily due to a blinkered cultural outlook which ignores cultural minorities. The differences between the two systems belonging to civil law and common law traditions don’t prevent to apply similar methodologies in legal comparative analysis. |