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Tensions around including persons with diagnosis of dementia in scientific research

Jean Gajardo Jáuregui, José Miguel Aravena
2017-10-11
Dementia —Major Neurocognitive Disorder— features cognitive impairment and other behavioral and p...

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....

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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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How should we treat pet robots?

137-145
Wei Li, Zhonghua Zhang, Shuang Li, Wei Wu
2025-04-06
Pet robots can overcome the shortcomings of pets and accompany people instead of pets. There are ...

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Legislation for disabled people in Brazil. From human dignity to social inclusion. Advancing capabilities as an ethical imperative

pp. 223-234
Rosylane Nascimento das Mercês Rocha, Josierton Cruz Bezerra, Francisco...
2021-11-25
The study analyzes the ethical and legal basis of Brazilian legislation for people with disabilit...

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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...

Acta Bioethica
Legal and bioethical issues of interventions and research in persons with intellectual disability in Chile

María Teresa Muñoz Quezada, Boris Andrés Lucero Mondaca
2014-05-26
This article presents a review and discussion of ethical and legal issues which protect subjects ...

Acta Bioethica
Normalized epistemic injustices and restriction of the agency of persons with disabilities

pp. 57-66
Raynier Hernández, Beatriz Revuelta
2024-06-15
Epistemic injustices refer to those forms of unfair treatment that are related to the production,...

Acta Bioethica
Individuals living with cancer in turkey and the COVID-19 pandemic

pp. 137-147
Gürkan Sert, Serap Torun, Mehmet Karatas, Yakup Gozderesi, Selda Ok...
2022-06-01
The aim of this study is to determine the problems faced by individuals living with cancer (ILCs)...

Acta Bioethica
On tort liability for climate change in Chile

153-159
Cristián Banfi del Río
2019-10-29
The scientific community agrees that the emission of greenhouse gases generates global warming wh...

Acta Bioethica
The ethical and legal duty to prevent and reduce to the maximum the appearance of new disabilities of the elderly in Chile

Carolina Riveros Ferrada, Rodrigo Barcia Lehmann
2015-11-06
In this article we pretend to show the inconsistency between the recent Law 20.584 ...

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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...

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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
Poverty and inequalities: an obligatory dental health debate

César Ernesto Abadía Barrero
2006-01-01

Latinamerican last decades' health reforms have encouraged liberal principles where access to ...

Acta Bioethica
Is it possible to force people to be vaccinated? Nudge against coronavirus

pp. 95-104
Ronald Cárdenas Krenz
2022-06-01
We all know that the world is facing a terrible pandemic. Science, with effort and promptness, ha...

Acta Bioethica
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
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
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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Human sterilization surgery and Argentinian law: biomedical, legal and ethical aspects

Sergio Cecchetto, Patricia Urbandt, María Carla Bostiancic
2007-01-01

Argentine's congress recently dictated the 26.130-2006 law about the procedure for sterilizati...

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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
Ethics of care in sexual and reproductive health context

Gabriel Jaime Montoya Montoya
2007-01-01

Ethics of care is a theoretical and practical construct which highlights the essentially human...

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The old person in history

Carlos Trejo Maturana
2001-01-01

A brief historical review of the role of the elderly over different periods in Western history...

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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...

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Hugo Antonio Fornells
2000-01-01

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

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Attitudes of students at three dental schools in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, toward HIV+ patients

Blanca Lucía Acosta de Velásquez, Eddy Pérez-Then, Héctor Fabio Mueses ...
2011-12-27
Objective: To know attitude of students at three dental schools in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, to...

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
Social dimensions in global ethics. New perspectives in education

Marta T. Fracapani Cuenca de Cuitiño
2013-12-04
This paper refers to some landmarks to consider in university training programs, with the aim to ...

Acta Bioethica
Development of an institutional curriculum in ethics and public health

Roberto Cañete, Ada Prior, Katia Brito, Dirce Guilhem, Maria R. Novaes,...
2013-12-04
Bioethics teaching has traditionally focused on classroom activities, but there is a widely recog...

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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...

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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...

Acta Bioethica
Post humanity as an objective good: the dangers of futurism in the debate about enhancement of human genome

Andrés Vaccari
2014-10-20
The figure of posthumanity is invoked in a wide range of arguments that advertise the appeal or e...

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...

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Bioethical reflection regarding access to supplemental health in Brazil

Bruno Del Sarto Azevedo, Chrisne Santana Biondo, Edite Lago da Silva Se...
2015-04-17
It is an integrative review that aims to develop a bioethical reflection based on what the scient...

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
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
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
Prevention and early interventions in mental health: an international perspective

Matías Irarrázaval, Fernanda Prieto, Julio Armijo
2016-06-18
Mental diseases are common, chronic and disabling, representing a problem in public health of imp...

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
Conscientious objection of professionals and its relation to sexual and reproductive health care of adolescents in Santiago of ...

Adela Montero Vega
2014-10-20
In clinical practice, the conflict due to conscientious objection arises when confronting the rig...

Acta Bioethica
Dignity and physical self determination as basis of patient status

Yolanda Gómez Sánchez
2011-08-23
This study reflects on patient status. Both States Laws and international and supranational laws ...

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
Ethics and quality in social research in health. Mismatches of reality

Susana Ramírez Hita
2011-08-23
This article analyzes the ethical outlines and methodological rigor in research basis of health i...

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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...

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
Communication of truth in the doctor-terminal patient relationship

Alejandra Gajardo Ugás
2009-01-01
People who work at palliative care face many ethical dilemmas. Often they are related with the du...

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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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...

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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
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 ...

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Importance of humanities in oral health curricula

Cristina Alicia Deangelillo
2006-01-01

In order to be authentic, education must be based on values, not only a training in practice a...

Acta Bioethica
Access to healthcare in Chile

Mauricio Olavarría Gambi
2005-01-01

Chile presents a remarkable lessening of its poverty; indicators show that people's healthcare...

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Genetics and bioethics in Latin America

Claude Vergès
2004-01-01

The relations between genetics and bioethics in Latin America are analyzed through the relatio...

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The genetic council’s bioethic aspects in the human genome project’s era

Manuel J. Santos Alcántara
2004-01-01

The Human Genome Project has had a significant impact in Medicine. Genomic Medicine is becomin...

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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Some observations on the current state of bioethics in Argentina

Delia Outomuro
2003-01-01

This paper proposes as thesis that in Argentina bioethics runs the risk of operating as an ins...

Acta Bioethica
Bioethics an psychiatric dissability: clinical an juridical apects

Laura Rueda Castro, María Angélica Sotomayor Saavedra
2003-01-01

This monography seeks to establish an interdisciplinary link between bioethics and the clinica...

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Physiological regulation and environmental harmfulness: bioethical aspects of scientific metaphores

Fernando Lolas Stepke
2001-01-01

This article examines historically the social influence of scientific physiology as the founda...

Acta Bioethica
Programs on sexual education in Panama

Claude Vergès
2007-01-01

Which place occupies pleasure in sexual education programs? In Panama, as in other Latin Ameri...

Acta Bioethica
Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform

pp. 189-194
Octavio Gómez Dantés, Julio Frenk
2020-11-12
The purpose of this paper is to discuss one of the most common ethical predicaments faced by publ...

Acta Bioethica
The psychoethics of syndemic: the pathic and the pathological

pp. 147-153
Fernando Lolas Stepke
2020-11-12
After discussing the scope and implications of the expression “mental health” at both the individ...

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 really important thing is not to live, but to live well. A discussion about euthanasia, autonomy and self-respect

pp. 9-16
Pablo Aguayo Westwood
2020-05-25
This paper aims to introduce the notion of self-respect in the context of the discussion on eutha...

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
Ethical and juridical implications relating to biotechnology with eugenics purposes

Aitziber Emaldi Cirión
2015-11-06
New biotechnological advances associeted with reproduction raise bioethical and legal issues. Ind...

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
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...

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A conceptual model for ethics committees: preliminary sociological syntheses

pp. 115-126
Hugo Cadenas
2019-06-11
The text proposes an initial conceptual approach to empirical sociological research on ethics com...

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
Brazilian law of inclusion: an applied analysis of the correlation of bioethical principles

pp. 67-74
Rosylane Nascimento das Mercês Rocha, Josierton Cruz Bezerra, Francis...
2022-06-01
Objective: The present study aims to analyse whether bioethical principles are present in the Bra...

Acta Bioethica
Repercussions in Spanish deontology in light of the rise of low cost dental clinics

pp. 75-80
Alejandro Carlos de la Parte-Serna
2022-06-01
The change in deontological health care model in Spain has led to the proliferation of huge denta...

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...

Acta Bioethica
The ethical principle of human intervention in civil liability

pp. 41-49
María Magdalena Bustos Díaz
2024-06-15
One of the main challenges associated with regard to civil liability for damages resulting from a...

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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
Revisiting the Conceptual Aspects of Humanization and Dignified Treatment in Healthcare from an Ethical Perspective: A systemat...

177-192
Paola Andreucci-Annunziata, Augusto Mellado, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Fr...
2024-09-25
Background: The attainment of humanization and dignified treatment in healthcare has proven to be...

Acta Bioethica
The Slippery Slope Paradox: When Restricting Autonomy Fuels Demands for Physician-Assisted Dying

237-244
Claire Junga Kim
2025-09-02
Korea’s system for end-of-life care and letting people die is quite rigid in the direction of mai...

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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...

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