Rethinking Xenophobia and Medical Xenophobia

With the increasing refugee population in our country, which has faced an intense wave of migration since 2011, xenophobia is day by day. During delivery health services, immorality xenophobia, grows usually hiding behind average number patients and unsolvable communication problems, was discussed from perspective medical profession, ethical codes deontology. First all, social science literature on current, historical psychopathological background this phenomenon, its explicit or implicit relationship with medicine were investigated. The xenophobic attitudes actions physicians, who are main actors care all around world, evaluated ethics history. In article, findings socioeconomic, political, psychological foundations context new racism theories, existence as a current phenomenon especially South Africa, what it can cause today tried to be revealed. fact that may arise against vulnerable subject about lose his self-respect society place encounter, where kinds identity biographical information no importance except for reasons, not only puts contexts patient-physician physician-physician (confidentiality, secrecy, intimacy, mutual respect, professional solidarity, courtesy, etc.) at risk but also turns issue into morality one. Medicine should practiced physician neutral space knowledge identity, illness, ignored.