[Care as re-mobilisation of the patient's capabilities in the medical practice].

Illness and disability are forms of vulnerability to which human beings are victims; they limit a person's ability to act and his real possibilities are reduced. These forms of vulnerability may correspond to the loss of capabilities. Armatya Sen presents the capabilities approach as a new theory of social justice, a new way of thinking about human well-being that overcomes the shortcomings of utilitarianism, the dominant approach of his time. Capability refers to what a person is really capable of doing. Medical care, therefore, appears as a form of help whose objective is to fight against vulnerability by re-mobilizing the capabilities of the patient who, at some point in his existence due to the disease, is found more or less momentary deprived of them. The development of the power to act and the power to be of the patient, through the care provided by the caregivers, consists of strengthening their capabilities that allow them to participate effectively and actively in social life and in the management of care and health system. The objective of this article is to highlight the contributions of capabilities to patient's care. For us, it will be a matter of considering capabilities as the basis of a new paradigm for understanding the care of sick and vulnerable people in medical practice.