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Bioethics, autonomy, and self-determination in patients admitted to a teaching hospital for treatment of substance use disorder

Lucas Franca-Garcia, Fernanda da Rocha Trindade, Alessandra Mendes Cali...
2017-10-11
The aim of this article is to evaluate moral-psychological development, autonomy, and self-determ...

Acta Bioethica
Bioethical and legal aspects of abortion counseling under Chilean law

227-235
Verónica Undurraga Valdés
2018-11-20
The Chilean statute decriminalizing abortion under three specific grounds provides for a counseli...

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Informed consent for case reports – an ethical perspective

Paulo Santos, Alberto Hespanhol
2017-10-11
The case report is a special type of scientific publication that focuses on a single patient, rai...

Acta Bioethica
“Brain death”, autonomy, and the future of organ transplantation

pp. 63-71
Oana Iftime
2019-06-10
Autonomy and its companion, informed consent is regarded as fundamental in contemporary medical e...

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The influence of managed care on the physician's perception of professional autonomy: a scoping review

109-123
Raphael Antonio Ovidio, Erica Maria Marques Ovidio, Guilhermina Rego
2025-04-06
The present study undertakes a scoping review on the influence of managed care on the perception ...

Acta Bioethica
The relationship of homeless, autonomy and vulnerability: a challenge for bioethics

pp. 95-102
Carolina Soto-Méndez
2019-06-11
The purpose of this article is to identify the relationships between vulnerability and autonomy t...

Acta Bioethica
The Other Side of the Coin: Nurses' Views and Behavior on Physical Restraint

253-264
Cemal Huseyin Guvercin, Menevse Samur, Kubra Pinar Gurkan
2018-11-20
Background: The physical restraint is a widely used practice that includes ethical problems. Anal...

Acta Bioethica
Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical Ethics with the Implementation of Korea’s End-of-Life Act

177-186
Claire Junga Kim
2019-10-29
This paper examines the possible impacts of the Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for...

Acta Bioethica
Ethical acceptability of using generic consent for secondary use of data and biological samples in medical research

Ana Frunză, Antonio Sandu
2017-10-11
The research idea starts from the previous identification of certain elements of generic consent ...

Acta Bioethica
Ethical challenges related to capacity, competence and autonomy in individuals with dementia

35-48
Valeska Delineau, Ivone Duarte, Ana Rita Ferreira, Lia Fernandes
2025-04-06
Dementia is a syndrome characterised by the development of multiple cognitive deficits and behavi...

Acta Bioethica
Family Centered Decision Making in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease. From individual autonomy to family or community autonomy

pp. 215-224
Laura Margarita Forero, Martha Patricia Rodríguez Sánchez, Efraín Ménde...
2020-11-12
The increase in the incidence and prevalence rate of Chronic Kidney Disease poses challenges and ...

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Perceptions and practices of clinicians on the autonomy of the surgical patient during the process of taking informed consent. ...

pp. 55-62
Luis Francisco Gonzaga Troya, Anderson Díaz-Pérez
2023-06-05
The way in which the clinician perceives the patient and his knowledge about informed consent (IC...

Acta Bioethica
Autonomy and care -seeking in adolescent mental health

215-223
Cecilia Olivari, Rodrigo Núñez, Daniela Ferrufino-Borja, Pablo Ménd...
2025-09-02
One of the main strategies for mental health prevention is timely access to professional help. Ho...

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Conflicts Between Autonomy and Beneficence Conceptions which Affect the Therapeutics of Suicidal Attempt

Liliana Mondragón, Zuraya Monroy, Ma. Emily Ito, Ma. Elena Medina-Mora
2010-11-08
The aim of this study is to know the conflicts between beneficence and autonomy principles presen...

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The new treatment of the capacity regime in the Peruvian Civil Code

199-213
Enrique Varsi-Rospigliosi, Marco Andrei Torres Maldonado
2019-11-19
Peru has a new capacity treatment in the Civil Code of 1984, achieving an approach to the guideli...

Acta Bioethica
The autonomy of adolescents in relation to the direct of immunization against sexually transmitted infections: bibliographic re...

pp. 91-100
Alessandre Gomes de Lima, Ruth Silva Lima da Costa, Thiago Gomes Gon...
2023-06-05
The present study is an analysis of the literature on the bioethical aspect of autonomy in relati...

Acta Bioethica
Publications relating to the reactions of medical students to human cadavers and ethics

211-217
Mehmet Karatas
2018-11-20
Objectives: Faculty of Medicine students are practicing on a human cadaver in the course of educa...

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Ethical aspects involving the use of information technology in new surgical aplications: telesurgery and surgical telementoring

167-179
Fernando Fuertes-Guiró, Eduardo Viteri Velasco
2018-11-20
Background: The surgical telementoring is a technology that involves surgical procedures guided b...

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Human dignity. Concept acknowledgement and operationalization

Monique Pyrrho, Gabriele Cornelli, Volnei Garrafa
2009-01-01

Human dignity, present in the Declaration of Human Rights and also in recent international dec...

Acta Bioethica
Communication of truth in the doctor-terminal patient relationship

Alejandra Gajardo Ugás
2009-01-01
People who work at palliative care face many ethical dilemmas. Often they are related with the du...

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Informed consent in forensic genetics

Rodrigo Grazinoli Garrido, Fabíola de S.R.G. Garrido
2013-12-04
Free and informed consent is an ethical and legal request in research involving human beings, see...

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Most important bioethical dilemmas of people with long term disabilities

Laura Rueda Castro, Orquídea Miranda Zúñiga
2002-01-01

The difficulty to achieve full participation and social integration of people with handicap is...

Acta Bioethica
Demographic transition and ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: social and bioethical facts and comments.

Lorenzo Agar Corbinos
2001-01-01

At the beginning of the 19th century, the estimated world population was 978 millions. In more...

Acta Bioethica
“How to lead our lives?” Advance directives (ads) in an Aristotelian approach: An essay

9-18
José Dimas D’Avila Maciel Monteiro, Elcio Luiz Bonamigo, Rui Nunes
2026-03-06
The question “how to lead our lives?” is a question about which life to live and is at the center...

Acta Bioethica
The Slippery Slope Paradox: When Restricting Autonomy Fuels Demands for Physician-Assisted Dying

237-244
Claire Junga Kim
2025-09-02
Korea’s system for end-of-life care and letting people die is quite rigid in the direction of mai...

Acta Bioethica
Epidemiological approach and bioethical considerations on hepatitis b virus infection in children and adolescents in the state ...

pp. 101-112
Alessandre Gomes de Lima, Ruth Silva Lima da Costa, Cristiane Sores ...
2023-06-05
The study investigates the epidemiological aspects of hepatitis B in children and adolescents, di...

Acta Bioethica
Informed consent in health care services

pp. 17-25
Gabriel Hernández Paulsen, Felipe Chahuán Zedan
2021-06-14
As a general rule, medical interventions require to be informingly consented by the patient. This...

Acta Bioethica
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. A discussion about euthanasia, autonomy and self-respect

pp. 9-16
Pablo Aguayo Westwood
2020-05-25
This paper aims to introduce the notion of self-respect in the context of the discussion on eutha...

Acta Bioethica
Quality of medical care from an bioethical point of view in an ophthalmological hospital in Mexico City

235-242
Edith Romero Chávez, Daniela Contreras Estrada, Guillermo Cantú Quintan...
2019-10-30
Objective: To analyze the perception of the quality of medical care from a bioethical point of vi...

Acta Bioethica
Ethical dilemmas and challenges in digital society: a multidisciplinary approach to cyberaddiction and technological regulation

31-40
Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Carolina Valdebenito Herrera, Osvaldo Blanco, ...
2026-03-06
This manuscript examines the growing complexity of cyberaddiction, a phenomenon that is becoming ...

Acta Bioethica
John Stuart Mill about suicide

Iñigo Álvarez Gálvez
2016-10-28
John Stuart Mill didn’t take his life; but he could have done it. If he had done it, when he was ...

Acta Bioethica
Bioethic aspects of mass vaccination in Brazil

Andreia Souza de Jesus, Luanna Rodrigues de Jesus, Vanessa De Oliveira ...
2016-10-28
Mass vaccination is the collective achievement of immunization practice, using strategies such as...

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Bioethical Aspects of Health Judicialization for drugs in 13 Municipalities in the Midwest of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Bruna Zago, Liliane Mayumi Swiech, Elcio Luiz Bonamigo, Bruno Rodolfo S...
2016-10-29
Health´s judicialization is a recent phenomenon in Brazil, with serious repercussions for the Bra...

Acta Bioethica
A realistic view of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Sergio Ramos Pozón
2017-06-05
In this article, we critically analyze the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities....

Acta Bioethica
Cosmopolitan cultures of childbirth. Contrasting its anthropological bases from the bioethical perspective

225-234
José Manuel Hernández Garre, Baldomero De Maya-Sánchez
2019-10-30
The objective of this article has been to explore, from an ethical perspective, the main anthropo...

Acta Bioethica
Who should be a parent? Parenthood and the significance of reproductive choice

Claire Junga Kim
2017-06-05
The various reproductive technologies have expanded the power people have to control their bodily...

Acta Bioethica
Ethical review in humanities and social sciences. Scientific research: between freedom and responsibility

M. Lucrecia Rovaletti
2006-01-01

This paper analyzes the situation of the ethical review of research projects in social science...

Acta Bioethica
The ethics of occupational health and safety in Turkey: responsibility and consent to risk

Fatih Artvinli
2016-06-18
Work-related diseases, injuries, risks and deaths are the issues gaining importance especially in...

Acta Bioethica
A consideration of ethical and legal issues in multi-site studies

Sana Loue
2004-01-01

Significant ethical and legal issues may arise in conjunction with the conduct of multi-site s...

Acta Bioethica
Citizen speeches about death in conditions of dignity and about the potential application of accompanying measures in this proc...

pp. 205-214
Gonzalo Tassara, Catalina Valenzuela, Luis Aravena, Úrsula Sánchez, Her...
2020-11-12
This article presents the results of empirical research that investigates the citizen's perspecti...

Acta Bioethica
Ethical challenges present in genomic research and biotechnology. Twenty years of Acta Bioethica

pp. 137-145
Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta
2020-11-12
This article reviews ethical reflections about genetic research and genetic manipulation publishe...

Acta Bioethica
Analysis of the influence of clinical and demographic factors on the understanding of cataract informed consent

pp. 91-100
Antonio Barreiro González, Miriam Rahhal-Ortuño, Alex S. Fernández Sant...
2020-05-25
Purpose: To estimate the influence of clinical and demographical information in the understanding...

Acta Bioethica
Genomics, public health and identity

Ruth Chadwick
2003-01-01

This paper questions the utility of the ethical principles that are usually invoked to deal wi...

Acta Bioethica
Equity and justice in health implications for bioethics

Marcela Ferrer Lues
2003-01-01

Achieving equity in health is an ethical challenge worldwide. Although it is known that health...

Acta Bioethica
A person’s autonomy vis-à-vis the right to life does not include the right to be killed by a third person: assistance request t...

Ángela Vivanco Martínez
2002-01-01

The author of this monograph analyses the resolutions pronounced by the House of Lords and by ...

Acta Bioethica
Demands of an ethics of knowledge

María Lucrecia Rovaletti
2002-01-01

The desire of knowledge, one of man's most important goals, there are also mixed wishes of oth...

Acta Bioethica
Patient satisfaction on nursing care: the case of gynecology and obstetrics clinics

pp. 127-136
Meltem Akbas
2019-06-11
Nursing care is an effective factor to allow the quality of health care services to be at a desir...

Acta Bioethica
Moral prisms: ethics and the older person

Martha Beller Holstein
2001-01-01

Bioethical discourse, as it relates to common experiences of older people, has tended to focus...

Acta Bioethica
The Right to Be Forgotten and COVID-19: Privacy versus Public Interest

pp. 59-67
Mónica Correia, Guilhermina Rego, Rui Nunes
2021-06-14
Recent studies highlight the importance of digital surveillance to gather individual health infor...

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Favio Rivas M.
2000-01-01

Violence is still on the increase even though the world is no longer divided. With the fall of...

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Hugo Antonio Fornells
2000-01-01

Domiciliary assistance in the context of Palliative Care demands a coordinated action between ...

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Josep Porta i Sales
2000-01-01

It is described the frame for applying palliative care to the different problems encountered b...

Acta Bioethica
The hermeneutical dimension of the bioethical enterprise. Notes on the dialogical/narrative foundations of bioethics

153-159
Fernando Lolas Stepke
2018-11-20
Based on the challenges posed by the scientific activity of the author, related to the integratio...

Acta Bioethica
Responsibility: From its conceptual foundations to its practical application in intensive care units

47-56
Carla Margarida Teixeira, Ana Sofia Carvalho, Sandra Martins Pereira
2018-05-24
There has been a shift in the language of responsibility because the threat of malpractice litiga...

Acta Bioethica
A comparative analysis of bioethical issues from view points of Religious Affairs Administration in Turkey, Roman Catholicism a...

Cemal Huseyin Guvercin, Kerim M. Munir
2017-10-11
The arguments set forth by religious authority are important since it play a crucial role in shap...

Acta Bioethica
Moral conscience: widening its application in health. Theoretical and practical issues of moral judgment in Chile

Antonieta Valderrama Sandoval, Rodrigo López Barreda
2011-12-26
Generally, conscience is understood as an individual and subjective character of human being; nev...

Acta Bioethica
“Ethical issues are transversal and habitual”: ethical dimensions in training and practice for community psychology

María Inés Winkler, Katherine Alvear, Bárbara Olivares, Diana Pasmanik
2012-11-12
Community psychology has suffered huge transformations associated to a historical and contextual ...

Acta Bioethica
Living wills in the nursing profession: knowledge and barriers

Marta Elena Losa Iglesias, Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo
2013-07-07
The aims of this study were to understand Spanish nurses’ knowledge about living wills and legal ...

Acta Bioethica
Ethical implications in management of gravely ill children attended in a Pediatric Patient Critical Unit

Paola Pino Armijo, Lorena San Juan Hurtado, María Carolina Monasterio O...
2014-05-26
Aims: To identify the current clinical management of children gravely ill attended in a Pediatric...

Acta Bioethica
Palliative Sedation (Part II). Ethical questions and moral principles

Paulina Taboada R.
2014-10-20
This article analyzes some of the most controversial ethical questions related to the use of seda...

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Building spaces of dialogue: a proposal for teaching bioethics

Verónica Gómez Urrutia, Paulina Royo Urrizola
2015-04-16
This article sustains, describes and evaluates a proposal for teaching bioethics which privileges...

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Bioethical reflection regarding access to supplemental health in Brazil

Bruno Del Sarto Azevedo, Chrisne Santana Biondo, Edite Lago da Silva Se...
2015-04-17
It is an integrative review that aims to develop a bioethical reflection based on what the scient...

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Controversy on ethical criteria in geriatric care

Lía Susana Daichman Raskin
2001-01-01

Resolving about resource allocation and the ethical dilemmas daily arising in geriatric care i...

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Ethical Considerations in Medical Treatment to Jehova Witnesses

Gonzalo Cardemil H.
2010-11-08
Currently, it would be unthinkable to treat a patient without explaining him his complications an...

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Knowledge of General Health Law with Respect to Blood Transfusions by Physicians and Patients Jehovah witnesses in Hospital Dr....

Elsa Díaz Santana
2010-11-08
This study evaluates up to which degree physicians of Hospital Dr. Dario Contreras of Dominican R...

Acta Bioethica
The anomie of “smart drugs”: ethical controversies and responses to cognitive enhancers

327-336
Xiangyu Chen
2025-09-02
Cognitive Enhancers（CEs）have attracted considerable attention due to their capacity to enhance co...

Acta Bioethica
Humanising End-of-Life Care in China: Ethical Reflections on the Barriers to Hospice Development

245-260
Zheng Zang, Ying Hong, Jianhai Yang
2025-09-02
Hospice care represents the ‘last mile’ of a person-centred health system, mitigating physical su...

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Bioethical issues in health care quality decision making

Víctor Manuel Rico Jaime, Octaviano Domínguez Márquez
2010-01-01
An interdisciplinary study on bioethics is carried out, regarding health care field and its total...

Acta Bioethica
The moral field of advance directive and its regulation in Brazil

189-200
José Dimas D’Avila Maciel Monteiro Monteiro, Elcio Luiz Bonamigo, Rui ...
2025-09-02
Despite more than 50 years of existence and their recognized importance, advance directives (ADs)...

Acta Bioethica
Informed consent in odontology. A theoretical-practical analysis

Leonor Palomer R.
2009-01-01

In order to know more about the petition  of informed consent in odontology, we realized a sea...

Acta Bioethica
The ethical risks and solutions of the algorithm black box in medical artificial intelligence

Hu Qinggui, Tang Xiuqiong, Chen Hui, Wang Jinsong
2025-04-06
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical industry is becoming increasingly ...

Acta Bioethica
The right to be forgotten regarding genetic data: A legal and ethical analysis

231-243
Mónica Correia, Guilhermina Rego, Rui Nunes
2024-09-25
This article investigates an under-discussed provision of the European Union's (EU's) General Dat...

Acta Bioethica
Comprehensive Methodology for Ethical-Clinical Analysis (CMECA): A new paradigm for resolving end-of-Life dilemmas

207-218
Anderson Díaz Pérez
2024-09-25
End-of-life care management presents significant ethical challenges, especially in complex clinic...

Acta Bioethica
Validation of an instrument for the application of principled bioethical principles in clinical research protocols

pp. 95-105
Rafael Bustos Saldaña, Grupo de Investigación en Bioética de América ...
2024-06-15
The aim of this article is to report on the validation of an instrument on the application of pri...

Acta Bioethica
Bioethical challenges of the DSM-5. Rupture, recalibration, or more of the same?

pp. 9-16
Gustavo Figueroa
2021-06-14
1] The DSM-5 represents the incorporation of psychiatry into evidence-based medicine. 2] The psyc...

Acta Bioethica
The ethical principle of human intervention in civil liability

pp. 41-49
María Magdalena Bustos Díaz
2024-06-15
One of the main challenges associated with regard to civil liability for damages resulting from a...

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Ethical Dilemmas and Principles in Organ Transplantation in China

pp. 181-191
Zhen Zhang 1, Zheng Zang 2
2021-11-25
In medical clinical practice, organ transplantation is mainly applied to patients with end-stage ...

Acta Bioethica
The representation of the support of the person with disability: The new scheme of legal capacity in Peru

pp. 211-222
Enrique Varsi Rospigliosi
2021-11-25
Capacity is a subject of transversal interest in Law, it is present in all its fields. It is an a...

Acta Bioethica
Views of University Students on Death Anxiety and Near-Death Treatments

pp. 271-283
Nuriye Değirmen
2021-11-25
The study was planned to evaluate the views of university students about death anxiety and near-d...

Acta Bioethica
Knowledge and application of bioethical principles in postgraduate Dental Students

pp. 285-294
Gabriela Morales; Ramiro Ramadán; Susana Alvear D., Galo Sánchez-del-Hi...
2021-11-25
Bioethics has been formally added, since 2008, to the curricula of dentistry courses in Ecuador. ...

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Brazilian law of inclusion: an applied analysis of the correlation of bioethical principles

pp. 67-74
Rosylane Nascimento das Mercês Rocha, Josierton Cruz Bezerra, Francis...
2022-06-01
Objective: The present study aims to analyse whether bioethical principles are present in the Bra...

Acta Bioethica
The application of bioethics as legal basis in judicial sentences concerning right to health in Brazil

pp. 49-56
Evandro Antonio Sbalcheiro Mariot, Stela Barbas, Rui Nunes
2024-06-15
The right to health is linked to life and human dignity. Among the instruments to make it effecti...

Acta Bioethica
Advance directives in mental health and the revocation problem

pp. 205-214
Pablo Marshall, Hernán Gómez Yuri
2022-11-30
This paper seeks to address the bioethical problem of the collision of wills that may occur durin...

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Bioethical analysis (moral subjectivism) from the perception of clinicians on the situation of embryos subjected to in vitro fe...

pp. 239-247
Víctor Hugo Almeida Arteaga, Anderson Díaz-Pérez
2022-11-30
The objective of this paper is to analyze the perceptions and practices of clinicians in relation...

Acta Bioethica
Reproductive and sexual rights: confidentiality and hiv/aids in Chilean adolescents

Ester Valenzuela Rivera, Lidia Casas Becerra
2007-01-01

Adolescents face cultural and institutional obstacles when visiting health care services searc...

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Bioethics in Nicaragua

Armando Ulloa González, Melba de la Cruz Barrantes Monge
2008-01-01

This work describes the bioethics situation in Nicaragua, with information on the circumstance...

Acta Bioethica
The capacity of patients to make decisions in health: attitude and Meaning for physicians and lawyers

Gladys Bórquez Estefo, Nina Horwitz Campos, Ilse López Bravo, Gina Rain...
2008-01-01

The objective of this article is to examine the attitudes of a group of physicians and lawyers...

Acta Bioethica
Is it possible to force people to be vaccinated? Nudge against coronavirus

pp. 95-104
Ronald Cárdenas Krenz
2022-06-01
We all know that the world is facing a terrible pandemic. Science, with effort and promptness, ha...

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