HOSPICE AS A TRANSFORMING EXPERIENCE: REFLEXIVITY AND IMPLICATION

Abstract

Returning to a concept by the anthropologist R. Guber who speaks of a triple reflexivity of the researcher (as a member of a society or culture; as a researcher with his theoretical perspective and thirdly the reflexivity of the indi­vidual or group that study), Mazzini problematizes these concepts as a result of the research carried out at the Hospice San Camilo. The notion of reflexivity is better understood with that of implication, so the author completes the herme­neutic option by talking about reflexive involvement, formulated by the Swiss anthropologist G. Althabe.