The Conflict : A Dynamic Element of the Interethnic Clinical Situations
This paper is a discussion of S. Fortin’s article in the same issue. We discuss two points of debate in particular. The first one deals with the rise of an « other cultural » in the clinical relations in hospital and with the representations the clinicians can have of this « other one » – representations which are the vector of potential conflicts between practitioners and patients. The second consists in going back to the question of conflicts in clinical situations and on their articulation with the processes of negotiation and recognition. We conclude on what appears to us, today, to be prerequisites of a cross clinical practice in the sense A. Nouss and F. Laplantine give to this term. What we understand as a practice would proceed from the production of a new normativity. In other words, a clinical practice would be renewed in the in-between space, in the continuous circulation between conjunction and disjunction, and would arise from conflict and recognition.