SUMMARY

This paper takes a closer look at the impact of information and communication digital technologies (ICTs) on medicine as science and practice and proposes an anthropological framework for the analysis of some information society pathology. Technological changes that lead to a Medicine 2.0 are given at different levels such as the information overload, the doctor-patient relationship, the self-understanding on behalf of the physician and the patient, as well as the vision of the human body and the concepts of health and disease. Looking towards a further description of the information society pathology, an anthropological framework based on the concepts developed by the Swiss physician and psychiatrist Medard Boss is proposed, along with some examples that show a possible systematic analysis of this pathology. The paper concludes by proposing some patterns for the ethical outline of the Medicine 2.0 as guidance for the prevention and therapy in the information society.