15 articles in this issue
Fernando Lolas Stepke
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Javier Luna Orosco E.
By interpreting that beneficence principle is the ethical foundation and that its application is not possible without structural conditions and quality functions, this article establish the inseparable relation between ethics and quality in health care se... see more
Francisco Javier León Correa
This article is a bibliographical review about challenges for bioethics in Latin America. First, some ethically relevant data about poverty and dependence in Latin America are presented. Afterwards, poverty and vulnerability notions are analyzed from a ph... see more
Octaviano Domínguez Márquez, Carolina Manrique Nava
A review and transdisciplinary analysis study is carried out regarding the integration between total quality and health field processes, specifically in primary health care from a general medicine and public health perspective. Main issues of total qualit... see more
Yolanda Gómez Sánchez
This study reflects on patient status. Both States Laws and international and supranational laws have respond to changes operated in health sciences, incorporating specific norms related to human rights. Dignity and individual freedom concepts are analyze... see more
Emilio La Rosa Rodríguez
This article reviews the concept of conflicts of interest with industry and the way these conflicts affect health care professionals work. Conflicts of interest of collective type in research, publications, writing good medical practice guidelines and wit... see more
María del Carmen García Crispieri
The increasing link among ethics-science-technology-quality-society, especially in the last four decades, has had great implications in transfusion medicine. In present study, relations among ethics, bioethics and quality aspects and their application in ... see more
Susana Ramírez Hita
This article analyzes the ethical outlines and methodological rigor in research basis of health interventions. It is supported by socio anthropological research carry out by the author in Bolivian territory in the last six years for diverse cooperation or... see more
Alejandra Zúñiga Fajuri
Rationing criteria in health care establish by AUGE, in Chile, are based, mainly, in maximum efficiency, contrary to the equity principle, which should sustain health care policies in democratic societies. For the application and justification of health c... see more
Kirvis Janneth Torres-Poveda, Silvia Magali Cuadra-Hernández, Julieta Ivone Castro-Romero, Vicente Madrid-Marina
This article raises an ethical analysis of issues related to the introduction of new vaccines against Human Papillomavirus in Mexico, whose distribution policy attend to equity more than equality, and has as fundamental axes to cover the most vulnerable p... see more
María Teresa Muñoz Quezada
In Chile, pest control substances selling and application is increasing, and although there are regulations about importation, commercialization, control and application, these are not effective in the regulation of their use by the population, mainly no ... see more
Paula Sánchez Thevenet, Carmen Javaloyes del Río
The aim of this study is to explore and update the relationship between bioethics and life sciences research in Argentina at national level. For this a descriptive, transversal, content analysis and bibliometric section study was carried out about observa... see more
William Saad Hossne
This work presents a bibliometric profile of Bioethics Journal according to the following journal databases: MEDLINE, LILACS, The Philosopher' s Index, Ulrich's, SciELO and Qualis classification system (Brazil). We found that: from 38 titles indexed in ME... see more
Adela Montero Vega, Electra González Araya
Conscience objection is described in clinical practice as a professional right, based mainly in freedom of conscience. A bibliographical review of last ten years is carried out to know the real meaning, extent and transcendence. The conclusion is that it ... see more
María Julia Calvo-Gil, Ricardo Ayala-Valenzuela, Moira Holmqvist-Curimil, Cecilia Molina-Díaz
The objective of present study is to discover the meaning of respect and care –as moral dimensions of nursing practice- within the system of beliefs and values in a specific culture. The theoretical focus of the topic is given by three elements which supp... see more