Acta Bioethica

Integration of bio-ethical principles and requirements into european union statutes, regulations and policies

Paul T. Schotsmans

2005-01-01

This paper stresses the goals of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcar...

Acta Bioethica

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...

Acta Bioethica

End-of-Life Decisions: A Survey of the Perspectives of People in Korea, China, and Japan

Ivo Kwon, Kenji Hattori, Kook-bong Lee, Claire Junga Kim

2015-11-06

Three East Asian countries, Korea, China, and Japan, have shared a similar cultural background th...

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

I Congreso Internacional de Avances en Salud Humana “Construcción de una nueva agenda”. Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Có...

269-270

Paula María Cooke

2018-11-20

Acta Bioethica

Boladeras M. (coord.) Bioética del cuidar. ¿Qué significa humanizar la asistencia?

Sergio Ramos Pozón

2017-06-05

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

Obtaining Informed consent: psychiatric nurses’ knowledge and practice at Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Enugu, Nigeria

pp. 125-136

Chinwe S. F. Ezeruigbo, Easter Osuchukwu, Michael O. Elom, Chinelo ...

2022-06-02

Background: Within a psychiatric care setting, informed consent is the voluntary acceptance of a ...

Acta Bioethica

The importance of overlapping bioethics and business ethics in managed care: A scoping review

125-136

Raphael Antonio Ovidio, Erica Maria Marques Ovidio, Francisca Rego, ...

2025-04-06

Implementing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that use advanced technologies in clinical pra...

Acta Bioethica

Ageism as an invisible sociocultural phenomenon that affects and excludes the care of the elderly

pp. 127-135

Maggie Campillay Campillay, Ana Calle Carrasco, Edith Rivas Rivero, Ama...

2021-06-14

Ageism in old age has been related to the social imaginary, responsible for maintaining prejudice...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethical perspective on abortion in Argentina through the contribution of cinema

253-264

Irene Cambra Badii, Paula Belén Mastandrea, Delfina Martínez, María Pau...

2019-10-30

Campaigns for Legal, Safe and Free abortion have led to the discussion in March of 2018 of a prop...

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...

Acta Bioethica

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...

Acta Bioethica

Mental health and bioethics: a symbiotic relationship

Ernesto A. Frontera Roura

2009-01-01

The purpose of this paper is to reflect about the strong relationship, of mutual nurturance if yo...

Acta Bioethica

Assessment of physical violence against research assistants and nurses in an university hospital

19-29

Oya Ogenler, Gulcin Yapıci

2018-05-23

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of physical violence and related factors am...

Acta Bioethica

Inequitable distribution of health resources in Brazil: an analysis of national priority setting

Fabio Ferri-de-Barros, Andrew W. Howard, Douglas K. Martin

2009-01-01

The purpose of this paper is to describe the national priority setting process for the public hea...

Acta Bioethica

The woman in the health care professions

Laura Rueda C.

2006-01-01

This paper tries to establish, through identifying the affective capacities of young women who...

Acta Bioethica

New perspectives in palliative care

Leo Pessini, Luciana Bertachini

2006-01-01

This paper examines palliative care under diverse aspects. After a historical and conceptual r...

Acta Bioethica

Subjects of rights classification facing genomic and proteomic development

Enrique Varsi Rospigliosi

2017-10-11

Law categorizes human life according to its situation in society with the goal to provide adequat...

Acta Bioethica

Etichal Issues in Primary Health Care from Centro de Salud Familiar de Paine

Luis Contreras Aravena

2017-06-05

This paper attempts to identify which clinical ethical problems experienced in primary care healt...

Acta Bioethica

Stigma, discrimination and adherence to treatment of children with HIV and AIDS. A bioethical perspective

Paola Conde Higuera, María Luisa Pimentel Ramírez, Adolfo Díaz Ávila, T...

2016-10-29

This article discloses the results of an research into the process of stigma and discrimination i...

Acta Bioethica

A model for health care resources adjudication for Chile

Alejandra Zúñiga Fajuri

2012-11-13

A model for adjudication of health care resources which gathers the comparative experience and th...

Acta Bioethica

Ontological statute of the human embryo as a person. A perspective from biological research in Latin America

Álvaro Olivo Yépez, Pascual Linares Márquez, Ana Isabel Suárez Guerrero...

2016-10-28

The utilization of human embryos in the biological research has generated a bioethical debate fro...

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

Pilot study with caregivers attending patients with neurologic diseases, about the meaning and knowledge of palliative care

Zoila Trujillo de los Santos, Francisco Paz-Rodríguez, María Alejandra ...

2015-11-06

Aim. To describe the meaning attributed to palliative care (PC) by caregivers, as well as their p...

Acta Bioethica

Journalists want virtuous physicians? An analysis by the model of Ethic of Virtues, in reference to Beneficence, according to P...

Concília Ortona, Paulo Fortes

2015-04-17

A search of notes written by Brazilian journalists specialized in Health, representatives of majo...

Acta Bioethica

Environmental ethics: principles and values for a responsible citizenship in global society

Juan Alberto Lecaros Urzúa

2013-12-04

Environmental ethics is an applied ethics which reflects about the grounds for duties and respons...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethics and Christian-Catholic Religion: Two complementary rationalities

Francisco Javier León Correa

2010-11-08

After a first moment of confrontation, in the last years several authors are coming to the convic...

Acta Bioethica

Participation of civilians in Catalonian clinical research and health care institutional ethical review committees

189-198

Montse Moharra, Joan M. V. Pons, Cari Almazán, Salvador Quintana

2018-11-20

To know the level of participation of patients, users and civilians in scientific ethical review ...

Acta Bioethica

Muzur, A., Rincic, I. Van Rensselaer Potter and his place in the history of bioethics

285-287

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2019-10-30

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 foundations that sustain the Mapuche and nature relationship. Contributions for intercultural health

pp. 19-24

Juan Beltrán-Véliz, Julio Tereucán Angulo, Ana María Alarcón, José Lu...

2022-06-01

Environmental pollution is a big problem that affects the earth. The Mapuche territory is no exce...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethics and environmental justice: the case of the presence of pesticides in schoolchildren in rural communities

161-170

María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada, Boris Andrés Lucero Mondaca

2019-10-29

A series of studies show the health consequences of people exposed to pesticides either because o...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical conflicts detected by psychologists of Primary Health Care

pp. 85-94

Manuel Pérez Ayala

2019-06-10

Objectives: To identify the detection of ethical conflicts by psychologists in the context of PHC...

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

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

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

Wrongful conception claims in Chile: a proposal for their justification

237-244

Hugo Cárdenas Villarreal, José Antonio Sánchez Rubín

2018-11-20

In this article, the authors refer to the wrongful conception claims, particularly the controvers...

Acta Bioethica

Perception of respect and maintenance of dignity in hospitalized patients

pp. 61-72

Beatriz Campillo, Josep Corbella, Marta Gelpi, Elisenda Martinez, Migue...

2020-05-25

Dignity is a fundamental concept that can be modified during hospitalization by the behavior of p...

Acta Bioethica

The process of physicians falling ill and consequences for their professionalism

199-210

Bárbara Marco-Gómez, Candela Pérez-Alvárez, Alba Gallego-Royo, Teresa M...

2018-11-20

The idiosyncrasy of the medical profession, the characteristic personality traits of the physicia...

Acta Bioethica

Breaking the silence of the lambs: integrating medical staff in prevention of human trafficking

Muhtar Cokar, Yesim Isil Ulman, Nadi Bakirci

2016-06-18

Introduction: Human trafficking, including forced prostitution, is a form of human rights violati...

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

The Law in front of the gene editing technique. CRISPR

187-197

Ronald Cárdenas Krenz

2019-10-29

The CRISPR genetic editing technique is one of the most extraordinary recent advances in biotechn...

Acta Bioethica

Non-medical malpractice in public hospitals

171-176

José Miguel Valdivia

2019-10-29

Negligence is a key element of public hospitals’ responsibility under Chilean public law. When da...

Acta Bioethica

Conflict of interest statements in biomedical publications. A study of four Spanish health care journals

Francesc Roig, Ángel Borrego

2017-06-05

Disclosure of financial relationships between researchers and pharmaceutical companies is seen as...

Acta Bioethica

Declaración de San Juan en la XII edición de Felaibe en Puerto Rico, San Juan, 15 de abril de 2019

pp. 137-138

Sandra Fábregas

2019-06-11

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

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

“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...

Acta Bioethica

Genetic resources and indigenous peoples: the thesis of indigenous cultural property in the face of public domain

pp. 51-61

Salvador Millaleo Hernández

2019-06-10

The article analyzes the position of indigenous peoples and their ethical-political foundations r...

Acta Bioethica

Ferrer, J. J., Lecaros, J. A., Molins, R. (Coordinadores). Bioética. El pluralismo de la fundamentación

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2017-10-11

Acta Bioethica

The acts of free disposal of the human body

pp. 9-23

Enrique Varsi Rospigliosi

2019-06-10

The body is the biological structure of the human being. It determines man in his natural physica...

Acta Bioethica

El cuerpo, la autonomía y las profesiones sanitarias. Debate permanente

pp. 7-8

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2019-06-10

Acta Bioethica

Drane, James F. Medicine, ethics, religion. Lit Verlag, Viena y Zürich, 2018, 164 págs

275

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2018-11-20

Acta Bioethica

Ecology of human behavior: contradictions behind the message of environmental crisis

161-165

Fabiola Cifuentes-Ávila, Rolando Díaz-Fuentes, Sonia Osses-Bustingorry

2018-11-20

The article contributes to the discussion about the current understanding of the ecological behav...

Acta Bioethica

Clinical record looked at from the current Chilean legislation

181-188

Jorge Godoy Olave, Jaime Barraza Mesquida

2018-11-20

The history or clinical record has served as an element of registration of health activities sinc...

Acta Bioethica

Medicines dispensing in big pharmacies in Chile: ethical analysis about pharmaceutical chemist profession

Adriana Marín Toro

2017-10-11

Based on qualitative research, is described the context of dispensing drugs in “big pharmacy chai...

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...

Acta Bioethica

Sustainable Oral Healthcare from Ethical Standpoint

101-108

Funda Gülay Kadioglu

2025-04-06

Sustainability refers to the efficient and balanced use of resources, considering the needs of fu...

Acta Bioethica

Promoting ethical governance: A collaborative framework for End-of-Life care policies for the elderly in China

57-64

Zheng Zang, Yueqin Chen

2025-04-06

Delivering end-of-life care services to elderly patients, addressing their physical and psycholog...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical Health Technology Assessment in Latin America: Lessons from Canada and Argentina

Carolina Martin, Bryn Williams-Jones, María Graciela de Ortúzar

2011-12-26

A wide array of biomedical and genetic technologies is becoming available in both developed and d...

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Hugo Antonio Fornells

2000-01-01

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

Acta Bioethica

Genetic counseling through a personalized bioethics perspective

Alejandra Gajardo Ugás

2007-01-01

Diseases of genetic origin presently cause around 34% of the deaths of minors under a year old...

Acta Bioethica

Pediatric palliative medicine in Brazil: an ethical reflection of medical practice

pp. 39-48

Anderson de Almeida Rocha, Lurdiano Freitas, Juliana Cesconetto, Lar...

2023-06-05

The ethical barriers involved in the practice of pediatric palliative medicine remain high and ch...

Acta Bioethica

Intercultural competences from an intercultural ethical approach in the initial training of professionals in health sciences. A...

pp. 177-183

Juan Beltrán-Véliz, Julio Tereucán Angulo, Ana María Alarcón, José L...

2023-10-18

Chile is a culturally diverse country, and this population must face difficulties related to heal...

Acta Bioethica

Public health and social justice. Toward ethical sustainability in healthcare and research

Fernando Lolas

2003-01-01

This paper puts forward the notion of ethical sustainability as the manifestation of moral val...

Acta Bioethica

Face, facial recognition technology and personal privacy

pp. 259-268

Wei Li, Menglian Hua, Ying Sun, Husheng Li, Yanhu Lin

2023-10-18

The privacy problem of facial recognition technology is that commercial companies obtain people’s...

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