Este artículo trata sobre la emergencia y la consolidación de la bioética como disciplina según está relatado en la literatura específica de la materia. La reconstrucción de estos relatos de narrativas, desde una perspectiva ...

This article shows how the original insights that arose during the foundation of bioethics by Fritz Jahr and Van Resselaer Potter and were forgotten in the early stages of the evolution of the discipline are being newly ...

Reviewing fundamental aspects of bioethics and outlining the work of the Bioethics Program of the Pan American Health Organization, this paper draws attention to the work of a forgotten pioneer- Fritz Jahr- who coined the ...

This paper's goal is to articulate Bioethics and Literature through a bioethical analysis of Mia Couto's tale The little word's kiss (free translation of the original title O beijo da palavrinha), seeking to promote a ...

Bioethics arose in a delicate social and political moment in the United States of America. With time, it has become a social and perhaps political movement. Its scope is wider and different than that of medical ethics. ...

This essay tries to show a moral, social and politically relevant debate in Chile: the controversy about emergency contraception and the decision of government authorities to authorize state health care services to distribute ...

The present paper reflects about the new bioethics teaching modality that employs a platform of virtual teaching. It points out this model's advantages and difficulties and the challenges it faces in order to reach an ...