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

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

Intercultural health: the impact in the aimara women social identity

Carolina Valdebenito, Marilyn Rodríguez, Andrea Hidalgo, Ulises Cárdena...

2006-01-01

This paper is part of a research project which tries to determine the socio cultural impact of...

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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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

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

Reflecting on narratives via narrative medicine: emotion themes derived from narratives of women with cancer

179-188

Merih Anar Öztoprak

2025-09-02

Narrative medicine provokes physicians’ deeper understanding and empathy for both patients and ot...

Acta Bioethica

The influence of managed care on the physician's perception of professional autonomy: a scoping review

109-123

Raphael Antonio Ovidio, Erica Maria Marques Ovidio, Guilhermina Rego

2025-04-06

The present study undertakes a scoping review on the influence of managed care on the perception ...

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

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

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

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

Bioethical perspective on abortion in Argentina through the contribution of cinema

253-264

Irene Cambra Badii, Paula Belén Mastandrea, Delfina Martínez, María Pau...

2019-10-30

Campaigns for Legal, Safe and Free abortion have led to the discussion in March of 2018 of a prop...

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

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

Global Mental Health: challenges for a global ethics

Fernando Lolas Stepke

2016-06-18

This paper aims at presenting a perspective on a global ethics useful for conducting and evaluati...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethical positioning of spanish health professionals: A semi-quantitative study

Marta Elena Losa Iglesias, Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo

2015-11-06

The present study was undertaken to examine the positions of Spanish health professionals on a va...

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...

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...

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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

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

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...

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

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

Moral conscience: widening its application in health. Theoretical and practical issues of moral judgment in Chile

Antonieta Valderrama Sandoval, Rodrigo López Barreda

2011-12-26

Generally, conscience is understood as an individual and subjective character of human being; nev...

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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

Public health and the human rights of the elderly

Martha B. Peláez, Marcela Ferrer Lues

2001-01-01

By underlying the fact that the need to protect the human rights of the elderly has not yet be...

Acta Bioethica

Public health and social justice. Toward ethical sustainability in healthcare and research

Fernando Lolas

2003-01-01

This paper puts forward the notion of ethical sustainability as the manifestation of moral val...

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

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

Investigations on reproductive and sexual health in Chilean indigenous populations and the lack of ethnic relevance

Claudia Dides Castillo, María Soledad Pérez Moscoso

2007-01-01

This essay argues about the ethnic relevance of investigations carried out in Chile on sexual ...

Acta Bioethica

Reproductive and sexual rights: confidentiality and hiv/aids in Chilean adolescents

Ester Valenzuela Rivera, Lidia Casas Becerra

2007-01-01

Adolescents face cultural and institutional obstacles when visiting health care services searc...

Acta Bioethica

Conscientious objection and reproductive health in Chile: two paradigmatic cases

Lidia Casas Becerra, Claudia Dides Castillo

2007-01-01

This paper meditates upon conscientious objection and reproductive health in two paradigmatic ...

Acta Bioethica

Ten years of experience with the research ethics committee of the

Maria Rita C. G. Novaes, Dirce Guilhem, Fernando Lolas

2008-01-01

The objective of this article is to relate the experience of the Research thics Committee of t...

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

Bioethical issues in biomedical research involving Chilean indigenous populations

Valentina Fajreldin

2010-01-01

In Chile there are diverse governmental and social instances to work with the health of indigenou...

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...

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...

Acta Bioethica

Knowledge of General Health Law with Respect to Blood Transfusions by Physicians and Patients Jehovah witnesses in Hospital Dr....

Elsa Díaz Santana

2010-11-08

This study evaluates up to which degree physicians of Hospital Dr. Dario Contreras of Dominican R...

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

Bioethical Competencies in Hydrotherapy Practice: the view of international Aquatic Therapists

281-291

Pamela Marcone-Dapelo, Bianca Dapelo Pellerano

2025-09-02

Objectives: The main objective is to explore the bioethical competencies that aquatic therapists ...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical review on the impact of work stress on employee depression

201-214

Qihan Zhang, Jinzi Liu, Ke Tan

2025-09-02

Introduction: The study is grounded in the Stress-Stressor-Health Outcome Model and the Conservat...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge and application of bioethical principles in postgraduate Dental Students

pp. 285-294

Gabriela Morales; Ramiro Ramadán; Susana Alvear D., Galo Sánchez-del-Hi...

2021-11-25

Bioethics has been formally added, since 2008, to the curricula of dentistry courses in Ecuador. ...

Acta Bioethica

Informed consent in health care services

pp. 17-25

Gabriel Hernández Paulsen, Felipe Chahuán Zedan

2021-06-14

As a general rule, medical interventions require to be informingly consented by the patient. This...

Acta Bioethica

Professional values of nursing in the postmodernism: a systematic revision

243-252

Margarita Poblete Troncoso, Marcelo Correa Schnake, Pamela Aguilera Roj...

2019-10-30

La sociedad postmoderna basada en un modelo neoliberal cuestiona el fuerte componente valórico ca...

Acta Bioethica

“Contractual” reflections on Chile’s law on voluntary pregnancy termination

215-224

José Javier Caro-Miranda

2019-10-30

After one year of the Law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in Chile, the possibility of abo...

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

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

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...

Acta Bioethica

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...

Acta Bioethica

The acts of free disposal of the human body

pp. 9-23

Enrique Varsi Rospigliosi

2019-06-10

The body is the biological structure of the human being. It determines man in his natural physica...

Acta Bioethica

Bioethical and legal aspects of abortion counseling under Chilean law

227-235

Verónica Undurraga Valdés

2018-11-20

The Chilean statute decriminalizing abortion under three specific grounds provides for a counseli...

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

Participation of civilians in Catalonian clinical research and health care institutional ethical review committees

189-198

Montse Moharra, Joan M. V. Pons, Cari Almazán, Salvador Quintana

2018-11-20

To know the level of participation of patients, users and civilians in scientific ethical review ...

Acta Bioethica

Ethical aspects involving the use of information technology in new surgical aplications: telesurgery and surgical telementoring

167-179

Fernando Fuertes-Guiró, Eduardo Viteri Velasco

2018-11-20

Background: The surgical telementoring is a technology that involves surgical procedures guided b...

Acta Bioethica

The promise of confidentiality: new lights for scientific research and professional practice in mental health

127-136

María Inés Winkler, Raúl Villarroel, Diana Pasmanik

2018-05-24

In this paper the concept of confidentiality is revisited in the light of the challenges arising ...

Acta Bioethica

Simulation in training nurses: reflections and justifications based on bioethics and human rights approaches

31-38

Raphael Raniere de Oliveira Costa, Soraya Maria de Medeiros, José Carlo...

2018-05-24

The aim of this paper is to reflect about the use of simulation in training nurses based on bioet...

Acta Bioethica

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

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

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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Diversity acceptance in question: enriching and adverse experiences in training and early professional practice in psychology

María Inés Winkler Müller, María Isabel Reyes Espejo

2017-06-05

Faced with an ambiguous regulatory framework of professional practice in the country; and a pract...

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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...

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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...

Acta Bioethica

Some thoughts on the mitochondrial transfer: a new issue for bioethics?

Iñigo De Miguel Beriain, Elena Atienza Macías, Emilio José Armaza Armaza

2016-10-28

In February 2015 the United Kingdom took the first step towards the adoption of mitochondrial tra...

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The medical record in mental health

Sergio Ramos Pozón

2015-11-06

In this paper we’ll address the issue of medical record in mental health. We structure this paper...

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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...

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