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Acta Bioethica

Bioethics and reciprocity in the acknowledgement of rights and duties

Raúl Villarroel Soto

2009-01-01

From a hermeneutic perspective, this article analyzes the statute of medicine as a healing art...

Acta Bioethica

Ethic and humanities themes insertion in medical integrate curriculum at public school of medicine in Federal District Of Brazil

Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi Novaes, Luiz Carlos Garcez Novaes, Dirce Guil...

2009-01-01

Objective: To establish a diagnosis of the insertion of bioethics, ethics and humanistic values a...

Acta Bioethica

Ethics and quality in blood services

María del Carmen García Crispieri

2011-08-23

The increasing link among ethics-science-technology-quality-society, especially in the last four ...

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

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

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

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

Bioethics in public university education in health sciences in Perú

285-292

Ana Alondra Paredes Cohaila, Américo Alca Gómez, Omar Pezo Jiménez

2024-09-25

The purpose of this research lies in evaluating the current state of higher university education ...

Acta Bioethica

Efficiency, planning and good management, determining factors for a greater equity on health care expenses: the experience from...

pp. 107-116

Luiz Oscar Machado Martins, Davi Oliveira Chaves, Marcio Fernandes do...

2024-06-15

The present work presents as a research problem the importance of efficiency, planning, and princ...

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

A perspective on research ethics committees in the brazilian amazon

pp. 67-77

Aparício Carvalho de Moraes, Rui Nunes

2024-06-15

This study presents the importance of the Research Ethics Committees (CEP) in the context of the ...

Acta Bioethica

Surrogacy in Portugal: Guidelines for clinical practice

pp. 31-40

Sofia Pinheiro, Miguel Ricou, Helena Pereira

2024-06-15

Introduction: The approval by the Portuguese Parliament, in December 2021, of the law applicable ...

Acta Bioethica

MEDICINA, RELIGIÓN, BIOÉTICA

pp. 293-294

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2023-10-18

Acta Bioethica

SEN, ZEKAL. Scientific Philosophy and Principles in Medicine

p. 135

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2023-06-05

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

The impact of medical students' attitudes towards group ethical norms on their academic achievement and classroom deviant behav...

pp. 257-267

Zheng Zang

2022-11-30

In recent years, medical students' absenteeism has been investigated in depth. Classroom deviant ...

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

Midwife and Nurse Students’ Perceptions of Body Privacy and Self Esteem. The Case of Turkey

pp. 259-269

Mukadder Gün, Filiz Aslantekin Özçoban

2021-11-25

The article reports the results of a study conducted to examine midwifery and nursing students' p...

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

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

Body privacy in gynecology obstetrics

pp. 225-235

Nuriye Değirmen, Ömür Şaylıgil

2020-11-12

This study aimed to develop a scale to ethically evaluate the privacy of the body in gynecology a...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethics and truthfulness: When the doctor’s word can deepen the patient’s helplessness

pp. 179-187

Felipe Arturo Rilova Salazar

2020-11-12

The reflections recorded in this article consider the way in which the general practitioner can i...

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

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

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

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

Miettinen, O.S. Medicine as a scholarly field: An introduction

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2016-06-18

Acta Bioethica

Bioethical debate regarding gyms’ need for medical certificates for amateur sportsmen

Dario Palhares, Flávia Squinca, Antônio Carlos Rodrigues

2016-06-18

Sports Medicine comprises two branches: one, related to professional athletes and the other, rela...

Acta Bioethica

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...

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

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

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

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

Palliative sedation (part I). Controversies about terms, definitions and clinical applications

Paulina Taboada R.

2012-11-10

This article analyzes the use of palliative sedation, as a potentially useful therapeutic tool 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

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...

Acta Bioethica

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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

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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

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Gustavo G. De Simone

2000-01-01

Palliative Care emerges as a modality of assistance for terminally ill patients, aiming at res...

Acta Bioethica

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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...

Acta Bioethica

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María Lucrecia Rovaletti

2000-01-01

In the presence of the problems posed by new technologies, traditional medical ethics is not a...

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

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

Goodman, Kenneth W. Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine. Fallibility and Responsability in Clinical Science

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2004-01-01

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

Genomics, biotechnology and global health: the work of the University of Toronto joint centre for bioethics

Abdallah S. Daar, Puja Sahni, Peter A. Singer

2004-01-01

The new and rapidly advancing field of genomics and related biotechnologies has the ability to...

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

Ethical medical prescription in a very poor country

Jorge Luis Manzini

2005-01-01

This paper pretends to draw a brief review upon the ethical aspects of a prescription at a "mi...

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

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

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

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

Doctor-patient relationship: elderly's rights

Melba Barrantes-Monge, Eduardo Rodríguez, Alexis Lama

2009-01-01

Aging suffers prejudices against it. Even among professionals who practice gerontology. A dangero...

Acta Bioethica

Hospital priority setting in a mixed public/private health system: a case study of a chilean hospital

Carolina Valdebenito, Lydia Kapiriri, Douglas K. Martin

2009-01-01

The purpose of this study was to describe, using qualitative case study methods, and evaluate, us...

Acta Bioethica

Sketches about nowadays' medical ethos

Luis Risco

2009-01-01

In ethical terms the profile that the doctor's rôle has acquired in today's society has not been ...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethics in primary health care and public health quality

Octaviano Domínguez Márquez, Carolina Manrique Nava

2011-08-23

A review and transdisciplinary analysis study is carried out regarding the integration between to...

Acta Bioethica

Medical Act: An Original Creation? Reflections on its esence, origin and risks of exposure

Mauricio Besio R.

2010-11-08

Medicine became a teaching activity with its own methodology since the Hippocratic School. As act...