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This article seeks to overcome the recurring tensions between the different disciplines of care and the religious traditions that have until now enjoyed exclusivity in the realm of spiritual accompaniment, as well as between biomedical ethics and theology, which accuse one another of imposing a reductive and idiosyncratic approaches. To encourage dialogue, one must go beyond a purely structural historical analysis that opposes tradition and modernity in order to analyse, for example, how a tradition of charity hospitals was able to regulate and give meaning to acts of care so as to favour respect for the liberty and intimacy of persons, or to propose learning to live with a sick body in a reasonably happy way. Today, the rediscovery of the virtues of mutual support between the different actors of care may allow us to favour more interdisciplinary approaches.