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Acta Bioethica
The assisted reproductive technology subsidy in Korea: criticism from a perspective of reproductive responsibility

245-252
Claire Junga Kim
2018-11-20
The Korean government’s new policy of subsidizing assisted reproductive technology (ART) fees to ...

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
“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
Moral assessment of frozen human embryo adoption in the light of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church

Justo Aznar, Miriam Martínez-Peris, Pedro Navarro-Illana
2017-06-05
As the number of frozen human embryos continues to rise daily, with numbers not expected to fall,...

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
“The prohibition of euthanasia” and medical oaths of Hippocratic Stemma

Sabrina Merino, María E. Aruanno, Ricardo J. Gelpi, Ana M. Rancich
2017-06-05
It has been debated whether the Hippocratic Oath’s commitment referring to not administering pois...

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...

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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
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
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
New concept in clinical care: proposal of a moral intelligence scale

265-281
Hülya Oztürk, Omür Saylıgil, Zeki Yıldız
2019-10-30
Effective communication, especially of those health professionals in management positions, contri...

Acta Bioethica
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
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
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
Quality of life in infertile patients in Brazil: religious spirituality as a coping mechanism

79-88
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Christiane Peres Caldas, Giovanna Cazelato Meni...
2025-04-06
Due to social pressure and individual desire to have children, infertility is often accompanied b...

Acta Bioethica
Physicians’ personal expression regarding bioethics, quality of life at work and the doctor-patient relationship

pp. 81-90
Mário Afonso Maluf, Rui Nunes
2023-06-05
A nationwide opinion survey was applied, in which each physician was able to express his or her f...

Acta Bioethica
Legal provision for the right of life of minors: a necessary discussion about euthanasia and assisted suicide in Chile

pp. 25-34
Estefanía Esparza Reyes
2019-06-10
Both euthanasia and assisted suicide have not been sufficiently explored by Chilean experts, lack...

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...

Acta Bioethica
Methylphenidate and Modafinil: egalitarian justice and policies of access to pharmacological cognitive enhancement

Daniel Loewe
2017-06-05
The article addresses criteria for access to pharmacological cognitive enhancement technologies, ...

Acta Bioethica
Ethical value of cranioplasty with oppressive binder as a way of limiting life support treatments

Alfonso Canabal Berlanga, José Jara Rascón, Rafael Gómez Rodríguez, Ric...
2015-11-06
This article analyzes, from a critical perspective, the use of cranioplasty with oppressive binde...

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Otto Dörr Zegers
2000-01-01

Suicide can be understood only as a result of a previous reflection about death. With referenc...

Acta Bioethica
Eugenics and genetic determinism. A simple solution for a complex problem

Fabiola Villela Cortés
2017-10-11
The main goals of this article are first, to present the current situation of eugenics, how it de...

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
Personhood and dignity at the beginning of life: the conceived by in vitro fertilization in Chile

Paulina Ramos Vergara, Ángela Arenas Massa, Manuel Santos Alcántara
2014-10-20
The present study analyzes some of the problems encountered in Chile in the beginning of life of ...

Acta Bioethica
Euthanasia in between shortening life and aiding death: past experiences, present challenges

Dietrich Von Engelhardt
2002-01-01

Euthanasia refers to man's self image and his world's image; also to understanding sickness an...

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
Paul Ricoeur and with a good and other life other: a purpose of teamwork in health

pp. 37-42
María Eugenia Rapimán Salazar, Irene Alicia Acevedo Pérez, Mauricio Adr...
2020-05-25
This article essential aspects of teamwork in the field of health, are reviewed from the ethical ...

Acta Bioethica
Harvesting the uncollected fruits of other people’s intellectual labour

Cristian Timmermann
2017-10-11
Intellectual property regimes necessarily create artificial scarcity leading to wastage, both by ...

Acta Bioethica
Relationship between bioethics and life sciences research in Argentina: Descriptive study at national level

Paula Sánchez Thevenet, Carmen Javaloyes del Río
2011-08-23
The aim of this study is to explore and update the relationship between bioethics and life scienc...

Acta Bioethica
Testamentum tempore pestis Civil law and bioethics faced with the testament in cases of epidemics

pp. 81-94
Enrique Varsi Rospigliosi
2022-06-01
The confinement due to the Covid pandemic affected the granting of wills, which are so necessary ...

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
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
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
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
Pregnancy experience associated to fetal abnormality incompatible with life

67-74
Mariana Arancibia Heger, Anamaría Silva Dreyer, Francisco Pantoja Molina
2018-05-24
Increasing precocity of fetal diagnosis allows parents an early knowledge of the health condition...

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
Ethical and juridical implications relating to surrogate pregnancy. An overview from a european perspective

Aitziber Emaldi Cirión
2017-10-11
We find ourselves in a time of far reaching biotechnological breakthroughs and alongside with thi...

Acta Bioethica
Recognition, Tolerance and Interculturality. A pending affair in a world of moral strangers

Raúl Villarroel
2017-06-05
The complexities of a current interest phenomenon such the unavoidable and increasing situation o...

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
Definition of public policy in the prevention and management of maltreatment and abuse: hermeneutics of bioethics and public he...

Carmen Alicia Cardozo de Martínez, Olga del Carmen Maldonado Gómez, Ali...
2015-04-16
Bioethics hermeneutics as rational practice, reasoned and sensitive, can set in motion, through d...

Acta Bioethica
The value of life, the embryo subjectivity and the debate about abortion: contributions from a critical perspective

José Manuel Morán Faúndes
2014-10-20
This paper analyzes critically the way in which the ethical and legal debate about abortion is po...

Acta Bioethica
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...

Acta Bioethica
Ethical considerations about the use of metotrexate in ectopic pregnancy (TP)

María de la Luz Casas M., Rosa María Sánchez Javier
2012-11-10
Ectopic pregnancy (EP) consists in the implantation of a fertilized ovule in the fallopian tube. ...

Acta Bioethica
Aging and dying: medical and ethical considerations

James F. Drane
2001-01-01

The idea of writing a chapter on aging seems particularly appropriate. I'm at the right age to...

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
Bioethical dimensions of old age

Fernando Lolas Stepke
2001-01-01

The increase of senior citizens in last decades and the greater longevity of the population wi...

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
Natural law, history and politics

James Drane
2002-01-01

The basic philosophical vision and ethical principles of Catholic Natural Law claim universali...

Acta Bioethica
Bioethics and jurisprudence

Pedro Federico Hooft
2002-01-01

This work analyzes, in the first part, the close and strong existing bonds between Bioethics a...

Acta Bioethica
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...

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...

Acta Bioethica
Poverty, vulnerability and quality of life in Latin America. Challenges for bioethics

Francisco Javier León Correa
2011-08-23
This article is a bibliographical review about challenges for bioethics in Latin America. First, ...

Acta Bioethica
The "highest level possible". An asymmetric right

Stefano Semplici
2010-01-01
There is an evident contradiction between what has been stated in Guidelines, Declarations and ot...

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 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
Ethical assessment of privacy breaches in epidemiological investigations and information disclosure in the internet age: Safegu...

pp. 87-94
Zhen Zhang, Zheng Zang
2024-06-15
While the Internet has brought convenience and speed to human life, it has also led to frequent p...

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
The Challenges of Transhumanism to Bioethics

pp. 9-17
Ricardo Camargo Brito, Nicolás Ried
2024-06-15
This article explores the challenges presented to bioethics by the emergence of transhumanism in ...

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
Artificial intelligence in medicine: legal, ethical and social aspects

pp. 63-72
Mykhailo A. Anishchenko, Ievgen Gidenko, Maksym Kaliman, Vasyl Poly...
2023-06-05
In this article, the authors reflected the legal, ethical and social aspects of the introduction ...

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 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
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
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...

Acta Bioethica
The ethical perplexities of king Ludwig II of Bavaria: madness, extravagance and medical profession

pp. 161-172
Gustavo Figueroa
2021-11-25
1. Bernhard von Guden diagnosed the Bavarian King Ludwig II with “paranoia” (madness), although L...

Acta Bioethica
Vicent Salvador, Adéla Kot'atková & Ignasi Clemente, editors. Discourses on the edges of life

pp. 139-140
Amir Muzur
2021-06-14

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
How the gene-editing in medicine and public health practice could stand the test of bioethics

pp. 49-57
Zheng Zang, Yueqin Chen
2021-06-14
In recent years, gene editing is increasingly used as one of the technical means to solve public ...

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
Proposals to expand the coverage of Child Mental Health in Chile

pp. 73-80
Alejandra Zúñiga Fajuri, Mónica Zúñiga F.
2020-05-25
Early life experiences can make an important impact in the architecture of the infant's brain, wh...

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
Abortion, sexuality and bioethics in documents and Vatican Encyclicals

85-94
Pablo Gudiño Bessone
2018-05-24
The ways in which the Catholic Church is involved in discussions about contraception, abortion an...

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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
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...

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
How social media affects the confidentiality of patients? A review of potential problems and recommendations

Cristina Mª Beltrán Aroca, Eloy Girela López
2017-06-05
Personal health data are considered as sensitive information, so they need a “special protection”...

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
Scientific ethical approach to double effect or only possible good in therapeutic abortion

Carlos Y. Valenzuela
2016-10-28
This study shows the inapplicability of the doctrine of double effect (DDE) to all the cases of t...

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
Prevalence and gaps today; mental health tomorrow

Benjamín Vicente, Sandra Saldivia, Rolando Pihán
2016-06-18
WHO places Chile among countries with greater morbidity burden for psychiatric diseases in the wo...

Acta Bioethica
Aging and loneliness: implications from building the notion of risk

Jean Gajardo Jauregui
2015-11-06
Population aging implies specific challenging when looking for the wellbeing of elderly. Loneline...

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
The contribution to public health of Abraham Horwitz: insigths from contemporaneous times

Jorge Jiménez de la Jara, Lorenzo Agar Corbinos, Nicole Saffie Guevara
2014-10-20
The purpose of this article is to review the main ideas of doctor Abraham Horwitz’s thinking (191...

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...

Acta Bioethica
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...

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
Analysis of the doctor-patient communication if breast cancer is diagnosed

Anna Pacian, Teresa Bernadetta Kulik, Jolanta Pacian, Mariusz Goniewicz...
2014-05-26
The aim of the paper is the recognition and evaluation of demand for medical information among pa...

Acta Bioethica
The ambitions of neuroethics: to find the scientific fundament of morals

Gustavo Figueroa
2013-12-04
The recent progress in neuroscience has led to ethical questions. The neuroscience of ethics inve...

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
Assisted reproduction: legal and ethical aspects. Scientific production in on-line journals

Sarah Lins dos Santos, Sérgio Ribeiro Santos
2013-07-07
Objectives: to examine the modalities of scientific production on legal and ethical aspects of as...

Acta Bioethica
Bioethical implications of research on embryonic stem-cells

Adriana Silva Barbosa, Patrícia Anjos Lima de Carvalho, Luciano Nery Fe...
2013-07-07
Embryonic stem-cells are capable of differentiation in diverse cellular types and be used, in the...

Acta Bioethica
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...

Acta Bioethica
The birth of bioethics and the constitution of the biopower

José Roque Junges
2011-01-01
The birth of Bioethics is associated to several persons and facts of the North American context. ...

Acta Bioethica
Medical ethics in the beginning of twentieth century. “The magic mountain” of Thomas Mann

Gustavo Figueroa
2011-12-26
Bioethics has deeply transformed medical ethics, appealing to other principles and practices. The...

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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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Robert Twycross
2000-01-01

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

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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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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
Bioethical validation of the «human genome project»

Leonides Santos y Vargas
2002-01-01

This text proposes a number of reflections that issue fron the recent advancements that have t...

Acta Bioethica
From clinical bioethics to a global bioethics: thirty years of evolution

Diego Gracia Guillén
2002-01-01

Human Beings are respectable because they are Human Beings; not because they have the same wor...

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
Bioethics and biolaw: implications of a reencounter

Reinaldo Pereira e Silva
2002-01-01

The purpose of this study is to investigate the statute of human life from conception on, find...

Acta Bioethica
Biomedical dimensions on human genome research

Ricardo B. Maccioni, Juan P. Muñoz, Cristóbal Maccioni
2004-01-01

The elucidation of the human genome constitutes a major paradigm. Besides its impact on our bi...

Acta Bioethica
Remaking bioethics’ history in Latin America. James Drane’s contribution?

Fernando Lolas Stepke
2005-01-01

This article presents the person and work of James Drane in their relation to bioethics in Lat...

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 ...

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Care for hiv/aids patients: norms and biosecurity for oral health in Colombia

Blanca Lucía Acosta de Velásquez
2006-01-01

The present article describes biosecurity universal norms for dental care, specifically those ...

Acta Bioethica
Gender, elderly and health care

Melba Barrantes Monge
2006-01-01

It is necessary to consider the bioethical principles of beneficence and justice for giving in...

Acta Bioethica
Conscientious objection, death and dying in terminal illnesses

Octaviano Humberto Domínguez Márquez
2009-01-01

This paper carries on a critical analysis of the figure of conscientious objection as an expre...

Acta Bioethica
Themes for a latin american bioethics

Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta
2009-01-01

The present work considers the philosophical basis of bioethics as a discipline, method and mo...

Acta Bioethica
Foundations of bioethics

Alfonso Gómez-Lobo
2009-01-01

After pointing out that Bioethics is just applied ethics, the article describes three bioethic...

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
Ethics and health care quality. Philotecnia versus philanthropy

José Geraldo De Freitas Drumond
2010-01-01
The medical profession has the ethical practice of the virtue of excellence. There have been sinc...

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Bioethics and Islam

Rodrigo Karmy Bolton
2010-11-08
This article brings up Islam perspective towards life. Islam is not presented as an "illustrated"...

Acta Bioethica
Notes about Judaism and Bioethics

Ana María Tapia-Adler
2010-11-08
The present article reviews some traditional bioethical topics from Jewish perspective, it gives ...

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...

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