Il consenso informato come strumento di esercizio del diritto alla salute per i pazienti stranieri?

The thesis proposes a reflection on informed consent as tool exercising right to health for migrants. The national, European and international protection of the right to health for migrants, will be investigated through an anthropological reflection on the nature, the construction and the logic of universal rights; the aim of the research is to investigate any gap between legislation and policies protecting migrant health and the existence of structural barriers that prevent a full exercise of a fundamental right. The research hypothesis is based on the real performative capacity of informed consent, usually designed as a tool to ensure both full professionalism of the health care in informing the patient about the risks and benefits of a specific medical treatment and the respect of the principle of autonomy. through quantitative and qualitative analysis performed in a department of gynecology and obstetrics, the survey focused on informed consent in action, trying to grasp the specifics of doctor and patient migrant. The daily dynamics between health personnel and patients, the characteristics and limitations of the service of linguistic and cultural mediation, the practical actions of defensive medicine have been investigated by participant observation. In this sense, the theme of "informed consent", investigated interacting disciplines such as anthropology, bioethics, philosophy and sociology, has set both as reading lens privileged to understand the dynamics of relationships between health professionals and migrant population , still victims of structural inequalities, but also as a "potential trigger" for new ways of interpreting patient-physician relationship.