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 ...

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 ...

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 work considers the philosophical basis of bioethics as a discipline, method and movement from its historical context, and proposes bioethical themes in relation with the social and cultural context of life in ...

The global COVID-19 pandemic posed a multitude of ethics challenges as the realities of the public health emergency became apparent. Issues confronted ranged from the allocation of scarce medical resources to questions ...

The contemporary impels us to resolve those issues still widespread in the fields of theoretical and applied ethics, not only from the philosophical disciplines, but the domains of knowledge made by science and the technical ...