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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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 conflicts in a public management context: conscientious objection and abortion in the Spanish public health network

pp. 19-30

María Soledad Vilas-Iglesias, José Caamaño-Alegre

2024-06-15

This article argues, first, that (1) the persistence at the international level of ethical debate...

Acta Bioethica

Unity, individuality and uniqueness of the person in the risk/benefit balance of the use of nutrigenetic tests in clinical prac...

pp. 215-226

Ana Laura De la Garza, Yael Zonenszain-Laiter

2022-11-30

In recent years, whole genome association studies have been conducted to identify genetic variant...

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

“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

Bioethical approximations to the case of Charlie Gard

pp. 45-50

Horacio Salgado-Fernández

2019-06-10

The litigation that confronted the parents of the child Charlie Gard against the Great Ormond Str...

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

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

Boladeras M. (coord.) Bioética del cuidar. ¿Qué significa humanizar la asistencia?

Sergio Ramos Pozón

2017-06-05

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

The ethics of caring and its application in nursing profession

Loreto García Moyano

2015-11-07

This article has as aim to analyze the usefulness of the ethics of caring in nursing profession. ...

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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

Scientific ethical review committees in Dominican Republic. An analysis based on international ethical guidelines for biomedica...

Julio Arturo Canario Guzmán

2011-12-27

The aim of this study is to describe the situation of scientific ethical review committees in Dom...

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

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

Promising health perspectives for human cloning

Fermin Rolando Schramm

2003-01-01

To evaluate the promises of human cloning, both therapeutic and reproductive, we can start fro...

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

Non-participation bias in health services research using data from an integrated electronic prescribing project: the role of in...

Gillian Bartlett, Robyn M. Tamblyn, Yuko Kawasumi, Lise Poissant, Laure...

2005-01-01

Electronic prescribing potentially reduces adverse outcomes and provides critical information ...

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...