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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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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...

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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...

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Advance planning decisions at Cordoba and Gualdaquivir Health District, Spain

José Manuel Jiménez Rodríguez
2017-06-05
Objectives: Determine the knowledge, attitude and advance care planning in primary care and to id...

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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....

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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...

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Probing Key Concepts of Medically assisted death. Analyzing the Portuguese Constitutional Court’s Rulings

89-100
Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Christopher Simon Wareham, João Cruz Ribeiro
2025-04-06
From 2021, the Portuguese parliament tried to get four versions of a law on medically assisted de...

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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
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...

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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...

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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...

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Corneal transplant: bioethical aspects

pp. 73-83
Mercedes Hurtado Sarrió, Mercedes Duch Hurtado, Julio Tudela
2019-06-10
This paper addresses the bioethical aspects of corneal transplantation, from donation and types o...

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Transparency and transplants: it is possible? Bioethical dilemmas in assigning organs

Alejandra Zúñiga-Fajuri
2017-10-11
Paucity of information on how waiting lists are managed and limited resources allocated is all to...

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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 ...

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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
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...

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Near term premature births, its is possible to establish viability limits?

María Estela Grzona
2006-01-01

Near term premature birth is one of the frequent situations in ethical decision making related...

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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...

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Bioethics dilemmas and their possible solutions in pediatric intensive therapy units of Federal District (Mexico)

María de la Luz Casas Martínez, María Cristina Caballero Velarde
2013-12-04
The process of decision making in pediatric intensive therapy units (PITU) is based on an ethical...

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Lack of sense of life and suicide: In which circumstances medical paternalism may be justified?

Mariana Espínola-Nadurille, José Antonio Sánchez-Barroso, Ricardo Páez-...
2014-05-26
Aims: Description of a clinical case addressed by using a bioethical focus. Materials and methods...

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Analysis of bioethical issues related to organ donation in controlled asystole programs

José Manuel Álvarez Avello, José Antonio Santos
2014-05-26
Solid organs trasplant constitutes a treatment for many diseases in terminal phase. Patients subj...

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Considerations on the publication of decisions by ethics committees

Irma Alejandra Coronado Zarco, Octaviano Domínguez Márquez
2013-07-07
This is an analysis about the form in which written communication can become a tool of influence ...

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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 ...

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Environmental bioethics and ecopedagogy: the task ahead

Pedro José Sarmiento Medina
2013-07-07
This paper attempts at recovering environmental responsibility as a strictly bioethical notion an...

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Limits to therapeutic efforts in clinical practice. Perceptions of medical and nursing professionals of critical patients units...

María Cristina Paredes Escobar
2012-11-12
One of the main problems of clinical bioethics related to the end of life is the limits to therap...

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Comparative analysis of Brazilian medical and dental ethics codes

Allan Ulisses Carvalho de Melo, Suzane Rodrigues Jacinto Gonçalves, Cyn...
2012-11-12
Professional ethics codes are norms (federal authority resolutions) prepared by members of the di...

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Ethical aspects of medical informatics: principles for use and appropriate user of computational systems in clinical health care

Fernando Suárez-Obando, Adriana Ordóñez Vásquez
2012-11-12
Medical Informatics (MI) studies the intersection among computer technology, medicine and the inf...

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The application of the subsidiary principle for patients’ empowerment for health care: the case of rare diseases in Argentina

Graciela Moya
2012-11-12
The subsidiary principle, broadly defined in political and social philosophy, refers not only to ...

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Ethical Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Marketing in Pakistan

M. Ahmad, N. Akhtar, M. H.A. Awan, G. Murtaza
2011-12-26
Our aim in this study is to give a broad overview of the main ethical and legal challenges of pha...

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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...

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Bioethical dilemmas in geriatrics: madical decision-making

Cristián Mercado R.
2001-01-01

Chile is a country that is growing older. Sanitary resource allocation is insufficient and the...

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...

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Chilean senior citizens in the 21st century: a polytologic approach

María Eugenia Morales Contreras
2001-01-01

Currently, Chile has a free market development model, which has been maintained within the las...

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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
Global climatic changes and the challenge of planetary citizenry

Fabio José Feldmann, Rachel Biderman Furriela
2001-01-01

In this paper we pretend to examine the issue of climatic changes and their crucial consequenc...

Acta Bioethica
Food supply: consumers and their expectations

Louise Sylvan
2001-01-01

In a century of significant improvements in health for many in the world, the last thing consu...

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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...

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Empirical social sciences and bioethics: Some reflections and an afterthought for Latin Americans

Fernando Lolas Stepke
2002-01-01

This paper emphasizes the need to integrate bioethical reflection with the results of empirica...

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¿why bioethics and law?

María Casado González
2002-01-01

Bioethics tends to recognize the plurality of moral options present in today's societies, impe...

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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
Ethics training of medical students: the gap between the formal curriculum and the hidden curriculum

Fernando Suárez Obando, Eduardo Díaz Amado
2007-01-01

To take right decisions in medicine from an ethical-moral point of view is a complex matter an...

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Hiv prevention research among severely mentally ill latinas: an examination of ethical issues in the context of gender and culture

Sana Loue
2007-01-01

We examine the interplay between ethical issues, gender, and culture in the context of our stu...

Acta Bioethica
Vulnerability of street children

María Luisa Gómez, María de la Luz Sevilla, Nelson Álvarez
2008-01-01

This article offers an analysis of 20 semi-directed, open interviews realized with street chil...

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Ethical and social implications of the introduction of the vaccine against the human papilloma virus in Mexico: reflections on ...

Alejandra Prieto de la Rosa, Cristina Gutiérrez Delgado, Dafna Feinholz...
2008-01-01

The objective of this work is to identify ethical and social aspects related to the introducti...

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Prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination. Ethical and psychodynamic reflection on embryonic sex selection

María de la Luz Casas Martínez
2008-01-01

The selection of embryonic sex is a biotechnological possibility that, because it is done on g...

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Science, technology and bioethics: a relation of mutual implications

Rolando V. Jiménez Domínguez, Onofre Rojo Asenjo
2008-01-01

This article deals with the subject of values in science and technology from the techno-scient...

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Conscience objection in clinical practice

Adela Montero Vega, Electra González Araya
2011-08-23
Conscience objection is described in clinical practice as a professional right, based mainly in f...

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Ethical dimension in dentistry practice. Personalist viewpoint

Roba Izzeddin Abou, María Spina, Egilda Tosta
2010-01-01
In the practice of dentistry, professionals face diverse ethical dilemmas permanently. Every dent...

Acta Bioethica
Democracy and bioethics

Diego Gracia Guillén
2001-01-01

Upon the last 30 years Bioethics has permanently been promoting democratic participation in he...

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Ethical aspects in telemedicine. Literature review

253-261
Francisco Rosero-Villarreal, Galo Sánchez del Hierro
2024-09-25
This paper analyzes the ethical aspects related to telemedicine. A literature search on the topic...

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...

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Performance of the professional councils concerning 966 complaints addressed to Regional Councils of Medicine (CRM) of Minas Ge...

pp. 249-255
Eduardo Luiz Nogueira Gonçalves, Francisco das Chagas Lima e Silva, G...
2022-11-30
The study aimed to analyze the actions of the Professional Councils in relation to 966 profession...

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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
A Theoretical Framework for Ethical Decision-Making During Public Health Emergencies

pp. 105-116
Perihan Elif Ekmekci, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan
2022-06-01
The new theoretical ethical framework is a general frame or tool for ethical agents, developed to...

Acta Bioethica
Strategies to empower women in relation to reproductive rights and family planning.

pp. 247-258
Manuel José Peón-Ponce, Nina Méndez-Domínguez, Jorge Carlos Guillermo H...
2021-11-25
This article reports on research aimed at defining strategies to empower Mexican women in their f...

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Barriers to Informed Refusal in Korea

pp. 173-179
Claire Junga Kim
2021-11-25
In South Korea, the legal and cultural environment keeps terminally ill patients from making an i...

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Cesarean section trend: A reflection from ethics

pp. 119-126
Jairo Javier Vanegas López, Amaya Pávez Lizárraga, Patricia Muñoz Ojeda
2021-06-14
World statistics show an upward trend in Cesarean section rates that exceed the 15% recommended b...

Acta Bioethica
Understanding changes in doctor moral hazard behaviour in response to government healthcare reform

pp. 81-90
Yaohui Wang, Lina He, Quanlong Liu, Xinchun Li
2020-05-25
Doctor moral hazard has a significant effect on the doctor-patient relationship, increases the co...

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
Beneficence of the doctor in the treatment of patients with terminal cancer from the experience of family

57-65
Norma Alicia Ordóñez Vázquez, Mariana Becerra Sánchez, Zuraya Monroy Nasr
2018-05-24
The aim of this paper is to learn from the experience of relatives of patients with terminal canc...

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Case analysis models in clinical ethics

Rodrigo López Barreda
2015-11-06
Advances in medicine cause every time with more frequency cases in which it is difficult to ident...

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The vaccine against Human Papilloma Virus: state of the question, proportionality principle and informed consent

Boris Julián Pinto Bustamante
2016-10-28
Within the current discussions on immunization practices, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) made various...

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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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History of bioethics in professional nursing education: a spanish view

Marta Elena Losa Iglesias, Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo
2013-12-04
Nursing education and the nursing profession must go hand by hand to emphasize efforts to improve...

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Bioethical dilemmas around in vitro fertilization (IVF) and gestational woman: towards the figure of a reproductive counselor

Ana Violeta Trevizo
2014-10-20
This paper studies some important dilemmas around in vitro fertilization (IVF) and gestational wo...

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