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

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

Learning or grading: an ethical dilemma in medical students

pp. 311-319

Rafael Bustos Saldaña

2022-11-30

Medical students must shape their future work, before, during and after their student life. It is...

Acta Bioethica

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

Ethical and Legal Considerations on Organ Procurement from Executed Prisoners in China

pp. 237-245

Yijin Wu

2020-11-12

In the past several decades, due to the severe shortage of transplantable organs, organ procureme...

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

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

Ethical Disputes over Living Organ Transplant and the Applicable Solutions to These Disputes in China

219-225

Tongwei Yang, Yijin Wu

2018-11-20

Objectives: In this study, we examine the ethical issues concerning living organ transplant in Ch...

Acta Bioethica

The access to drugs: conflicts between intellectual property and public health protection

Raúl Allard Soto

2015-04-16

Topics related to intellectual property rights and lack of competency are found among the major o...

Acta Bioethica

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...

Acta Bioethica

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

The impact of biotechnology in Latin America social engagement

Alexandre Bota Arqué

2003-01-01

The unceasing advance of techno science, specifically biotechnology, has open a world full of ...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical culture and health research

Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta

2005-01-01

This paper argues about the importance of developing an ethical culture, particularly in devel...

Acta Bioethica

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

Ethics of continuous professional development in the promotion of health care quality

Rogelio Altisent

2010-01-01

Ethics has always being present in a more or less explicit way in health care quality; neverthele...

Acta Bioethica

The ethical risks and regulations of medical digital twin technology

337-346

Ying Sun, Lu Ran

2025-09-02

Medical digital twin technology has shown tremendous potential in personalized medicine, disease ...

Acta Bioethica

Exploring factors influencing ethical marketing of biomedical products: A case study in Pakistan

305-325

Huizhi Wu, Wei Wang, Talib Hussain, Manzar Rehman, Tong Zelin

2025-09-02

This study examines the impact of socio-cultural factors and informal business networks on ethica...

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...

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

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

Temporal and spatial changes and equity of nursing human resources configuration in Sichuan province, China

303-310

Huan Yang, Yayun Song

2024-09-25

This research aims to analyze the configuration, distribution, and equity of nursing human resour...

Acta Bioethica

Evolution and importance of the Research Ethics Committee, CEP, in higher education institutions: a study in a western Amazonia...

pp. 79-86

Aparício Carvalho de Moraes, Rui Nunes

2024-06-15

The Research Ethics Committee (CEP) has become an essential mechanism for social control in Brazi...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical and scientific considerations of the beginning of life on eugenic abortion in disabling genetic diseases in Peru

pp. 269-280

Hugo Hernán Abarca Barriga

2023-10-18

The article presents current biological concepts, as well as some philosophical approaches to the...

Acta Bioethica

Vulnerability and care from the nursing perspective: a review integrated literature

pp. 218-228

Maggie Campillay-Campillay, Cristina Yañez-Corrales, Pablo Dubó Aray...

2023-10-18

Vulnerability is a concept widely used in the social sciences literature, and incorporated into t...

Acta Bioethica

Code of ethics for Brazilian medical students. A literature review

pp. 197-204

Jussara Mathias Netto Khouri, Lilian Bahia, Francisca Melo Pojal da S...

2023-10-18

In August 2018, the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM), the body responsible for the supervision a...

Acta Bioethica

Unviability of a special legal regime for the shared custody of children with disabilities in Perú

pp. 113-125

María José Camino de Menchaca, Mariana Pardo Castro, Enrique Varsi-R...

2023-06-05

In terms of family law, Peruvian legislation contemplates the possibility of shared custody, expr...

Acta Bioethica

Enhancing medical ethics education for medical students in clinical research: considerations and strategy analysis

pp. 9-16

Jia Li, Zirui Zhou, Xiaohui Zhang

2023-06-05

In recent years, the vigorous development of clinical researches carried out by medical schools i...

Acta Bioethica

Shared decision-making in genetic counseling: a scoping review

pp. 227-237

Peng Chenyang, Ning Ni, Li Yiyu, Tan Xiangmin, Tu Chaofeng, Sun Mei

2022-11-30

Background: It is challenging to make informed decision in genetic counseling. Shared decision-ma...

Acta Bioethica

Empty interculturality: the right to intercultural health of indigenous peoples and migrants in Chile

pp. 25-34

Liliana Galdámez Zelada, Salvador Millaleo Hernández

2022-06-01

This work analyzes the development of the intercultural perspective in the protection and guarant...

Acta Bioethica

Palliative care for Chinese immigrants in New Zealand: experiences and perceptions

pp. 193-200

Jin Tian, Shuqiang An, Wei Yuan

2021-11-25

Over the past several decades, palliative care has seen tremendous development in Western countri...

Acta Bioethica

Covid-19 and medical liability: challenges of an unknown disease that became a pandemic

pp. 155-164

Hugo Cárdenas Villarreal, Manuel Antonio Pérez Saavedra

2020-11-12

The coronavirus health-emergency shows that liability schemes need to discriminate the conceptual...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethical aspects of the use of biometric identifiers

pp. 43-50

Boris A. Lucero M., Chiara Saracini, Marco Mora, María Teresa Muñoz Que...

2020-05-26

Biometrics has had a rapid expansion as a technology, being increasingly accessible to the public...

Acta Bioethica

Preclinical Students’ Views on Medical Ethics Education: A Focus Group Study in Turkey

105-115

Ahmet Can Bilgin, Sevgi Timbil, Cemal Huseyin Guvercin, Sema Ozan, Semi...

2018-05-24

Aim: We aimed to receive the opinions of the preclinical medical students on medical ethics educa...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical Problems with the Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis of Human Embryos

75-83

José Tomás Alvarado Marambio, Manuel J. Santos Alcántara

2018-05-24

The purpose of preimplantation genetic diagnosis by embryonary biopsy is to identify genetic alte...

Acta Bioethica

Nursing care and ethical issues surgen from the technological health advance

39-46

Blanca Escobar-Castellanos, Patricia Cid-Henríquez

2018-05-23

Background: Nurses are exposed to face ethical conflicts because the responsibilities associated ...

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

Descriptive-exploratory study about bioethical considerations present in interventions to persons with psychiatric disabilities...

Manuel Pérez Ayala

2016-10-29

This article relates bioethics and psychiatric disabilities. Through interviews with professional...

Acta Bioethica

Research ethics training of trainers: developing capacity of Bolivian health science and civil society leaders

Annette Aalborg, Sarah Sullivan, Jacqueline Cortes, Armando Basagoitia,...

2016-10-28

Research and research ethics (RE) capacity is a key element for addressing health priorities of l...

Acta Bioethica

Decriminalization of abortion in Chile. A question of social justice

Claudia Donoso Sabando

2016-10-28

The positions on this issue move on a continuum ranging from ultra-conservative to the most liber...

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

Harm to others from alcohol: the role of socio-cultural variables

Ramón Florenzano, Gabriela Huepe, Michelle Barr

2016-06-18

This paper describes the changes in alcohol research, from a traditional individual focus on indi...

Acta Bioethica

Ethics, psychiatry and mental health

Alberto Perales

2016-06-18

After delimiting the concepts of moral and ethics the author makes a conceptual difference betwee...

Acta Bioethica

The Informed Consent in developing countries is truly autonomous? A descriptive study of participants in a helmintiasis clinica...

Lucas Lobato, Maria Flávia Gazzinelli

2015-04-17

This study demonstrates that the signing of the consent form is not an autonomous decision to all...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical values and curricula training in Dentistry

Luis A. Vicentela, Carmen Gloria Narváez, Manuel Velásquez

2015-04-16

In order to identify ethical values of Dentistry students related to the profile of career ending...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethics and superior education in Mexico

Pedro César Cantú Martínez

2015-04-16

This article refers to the bioethics status in Mexico, characterizing the circumstances and the s...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethics and auto health care: imperatives for integral training in the university

Zoila Rosa Franco Peláez, Jorge Alberto Duque Escobar

2015-04-16

Self care is the responsibility of human beings. Integral training (IT) as a process of human dev...

Acta Bioethica

Learning bioethics based on problems (LBBP): a new pedagogical focus

Fabio Alberto Garzón Díaz, Betty Zárate

2015-04-16

This article results from research project HUM-948, about the field of bioethics, culture and edu...

Acta Bioethica

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...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical evaluation of the diagnosis of diseases causing disability in prenatal life

Graciela Moya

2014-05-26

The goal of prenatal diagnosis causes a controversial dilemma. Some authors sustain that it favor...

Acta Bioethica

Development ethics, deliberative democracy and environmental citizenship. The global challenge of sustainability

Raúl Villarroel

2013-12-05

This article explores the notion of "citizenship" from the theoretical context deployed by eco...

Acta Bioethica

Students commitment to bioethics during the process of clinical training in Dentistry

Ximena Lee Muñoz, Cristián Vergara Núñez, Elizabeth Astorga Bustamante,...

2013-12-04

This study pretends to understand, through speech analysis, the commitment to bioethics of dentis...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical topics in international research with transgenic food

Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta

2013-12-04

This article reflects about the ethical issues generated in society by the production and use of ...

Acta Bioethica

Business sustainability, energy safety and environmental ethics in Chile

Andrés Suárez

2013-12-04

This paper explores the relation between business sustainability, both linked to financial profit...

Acta Bioethica

Biopolitical administration within Biobanks

Raúl Villarroel

2013-07-07

Since Mendel´s original experiments on genetic characteristics of greenpeas, the biological scien...

Acta Bioethica

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...

Acta Bioethica

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...

Acta Bioethica

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 ...

Acta Bioethica

An approach to professional ethos in beginning psychology students centered into professional training

Diana Pasmanik, Fabiola Jadue, María Inés Winkler

2012-06-07

Between 2008 and 2010 the impact of four learning modules on the ethics of clinical and education...

Acta Bioethica

Development of the educational dimension of ethics of research committees (ERCs)

Adriana Silva Barbosa, Rita Narriman Silva de Oliveira Boery, Eduardo N...

2012-06-07

The importance of the educational and consulting nature of ethics of research committees (ERCs) h...

Acta Bioethica

Experiences and impact of an ethics of research training

Carmen Rosa García Rupaya

2012-06-07

This article has the purpose to describe achievements and impact of the ethics of research traini...

Acta Bioethica

Experiences about the impact of the Ethics of Biomedical and Psychosocial Research Training Program in mental health and behavi...

Liliana Mondragón Barrios

2012-06-07

The purpose of this article is to present the impact and the integration of knowledge acquired in...

Acta Bioethica

Ethics in psychosocial and biomedical research – A training experience at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics (CIEB) of ...

Fernando Lolas Stepke, Eduardo Rodriguez

2012-06-07

This paper reviews the experience in training Latin American professionals and scientists in the ...

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...

Acta Bioethica

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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Raúl Villarroel

2000-01-01

Trying to overcome difficulties posed by philosophical reflection to the revitalization of a p...

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Robert Twycross

2000-01-01

After summarizing the historical background and development of former hospices, the author ana...

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Jorge Luis Manzini

2000-01-01

This paper consists in a particularised analysis of the Declaration of Helsinki, revised at th...

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Fernando Lolas Stepke

2000-01-01

This paper presents an approach to the process of valoric construction based on natural langua...

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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...

Acta Bioethica

Gen therapy and ethical principles

Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta

2003-01-01

Gene therapy is a form of genetic manipulation which tries to correct or to diminish the effec...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical dimensions of agroecology criticism to the agrobiotechnology

Miguel A. Altieri

2003-01-01

The goal of this report is to put into question the false promises that agroindustry has made ...

Acta Bioethica

Frameworks for ethics in public health

Bruce Jennings

2003-01-01

This paper constructs a conceptual framework for the normative study of public health. It argu...

Acta Bioethica

Public health ethics: towards a research agenda

Alison Thompson, Ann Robertson, Ross Upshur

2003-01-01

Public health ethics, as distinct from clinical/medical bioethics, is an emerging field of stu...

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...

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International research ethics: the problem of the justice toward the less developed countries

Ruth Macklin

2004-01-01

Today, in order to protect the population of developing countries from the risk of exploitatio...

Acta Bioethica

Crossroads of bioethics and public health

Christian Darras

2004-01-01

In their respective development, medical ethics, as well as public health, reached a crossing ...

Acta Bioethica

The genome project in biomedical literature within four countries in latin america

Fernando Lolas Stepke, Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta, Carolina Valdebenito He...

2004-01-01

The present reflection refers to data obtained about the social representations of genomic res...

Acta Bioethica

Gene therapy: medical treatment, eugenics or inheritanceõs hygiene?

Alfredo G. Kohn Loncarica, Delia Outomuro, Jaime Bortz, Norma Isabel Sá...

2004-01-01

The development of molecular genetics in the last two decades brought about important changes ...

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

Bioethics from a pragmatic perspective: ethical issues in biopharmaceuticals

Michael A. Fournel

2005-01-01

In recent times competitive, commercial and fiscal pressures have introduced new and challengi...

Acta Bioethica

Consumer health informatics: ethics, evaluation and standards

Eta S. Berner, Amarinder Singh Sandhu, Kenneth W. Goodman

2005-01-01

This article discusses the ethical issues involved in consumer health informatics -specificall...

Acta Bioethica

Telemedicine: a challenge for Latin America

Sergio Litewka

2005-01-01

Telemedicine is a growing trend in the provision of medical services. Although the effectivene...

Acta Bioethica

Ethics and health informatics: focus on Latin America and the Caribbean

Kenneth W. Goodman

2005-01-01

Expanding use of computers in medicine continues to raise interesting and important ethical is...

Acta Bioethica

Need for bioethics in higher education

Clemencia Bermúdez de Caicedo

2006-01-01

Higher education should include training in values, in order to generate a culture of respect ...

Acta Bioethica

Responsability of sponsors after clinical trials are finished

Elizabeth Benites Estupiñán

2006-01-01

This paper describes some ethical problems derived from multi center studies in developing cou...

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

Bioethics, mental health care and gender

Carmen Bravo de Rueda Ortega

2006-01-01

This paper focuses on the development of three main concepts, representing our time, whose def...

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...

Acta Bioethica

Ética de la investigación en modelos animales de enfermedades humanas

Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta

2007-01-01

This paper argues about the ethical implications of using animals as models for human medicine...

Acta Bioethica

Introduction to investigation's methodology in bioethics, hints for the developmento of an interdisciplinary qualitative protocol

María de la Luz Casas Martínez

2008-01-01

Bioethics' advance requires science's support for its development. Bioethics' investigation st...

Acta Bioethica

Adjustmento of biomedical investigation in Chile

María Angélica Sotomayor Saavedra

2008-01-01

This paper analyses the developmento of the normative on human beings' development in Chile s...

Acta Bioethica

Ethics and humanism in medical's training

Alberto Perales Cabrera

2008-01-01

The claim to emphasize the ethic and humanistic axes of the medical education in the XXI" cent...

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...

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Human rights, information society and risk society

María Lucrecia Rovaletti

2010-01-01

Online bursting obliges to rethink the right to privacy, given the organization of huge databases...

Acta Bioethica

Diseases of minorities?

Favio Rivas Muñoz

2010-01-01

Pandemic recent threats have uncover that, even being more difficult and unknown, the problems th...

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Health care quality and ethical principles

Gabriel D'Empaire

2010-01-01

Health care quality has become a fundamental requirement for any health care service. Despite the...

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Science, Religion and Ethics: The religious ethical basis of Indian science of Medicine

Sreekumar Nellickappilly

2010-11-08

It is often said that in Ayurveda, the Indian science of medicine, the scientific concerns are mu...

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