ABSTRACT It was not by mere chance that the two great, mature works of Marx seeking to describe capitalist society and to undrape its fundamental character started with analyzing the goods. In fact, in this stage of the evolution of mankind, there is not one problem not leading us ultimately to this question, whose solution however cannot be found by trying to solve the structural enigma of the goods. When looking into the relation between health professionals and patient, whose interpretation of biomedicine sustained and demarcated objectivized and mechanicist functions, we observe that Marx' search for understanding capitalism led basically to the same concept we find in the merchantilist relation between doctor and patient, coined by rationalism.
Alienation; Kapital; Doctor