17 articles in this issue
Fernando Lolas Stepke
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Ricardo Maliandi, Óscar Thüer, Sergio Cecchetto
This article reviews the task of ethical reasoning (or of norms or moral valuation), the basic problem of the level of reflection typically labeled as "normative." The article shows different attitudes from which to seek to clarify "the why" of moral phen... see more
Ricardo Maliandi
The present article sums up the task of the transcendental a priori basis developed by the ethics of discourse elaborated by Karl-Otto Apel. From a personal position, he resorts to this theoretical proposal and the contributions that were realized in para... see more
Jorge José Ferrer
This article examines the epistemological statute of bioethics as an academic discipline. The author claims that the epistemological statute of a dialogue determines the fundamental question that is raised and the answer that is sought, essential points o... see more
Alfonso Gómez-Lobo
After pointing out that Bioethics is just applied ethics, the article describes three bioethics fundamentals: utilitarianism, of principles and the basic good, examining their main postulates and revealing their apparent limitations. The article concludes... see more
Cristián Borgoño Barros
The article shows the current status of debate on the possibility to found a bioethics of universal reach. The article gives particular attention to the intent to invoke the paradigm of human rights, displaying the strengths and weaknesses of this option,... see more
Juan de Dios Vial Correa, Ángel Rodríguez Guerro
This work contemplates the concept of "dignity" from its origins and the evolution of the term, in search of a philosophical and anthropological substrate that grounds the concept, with the objective of the respect of the human being from its conception u... see more
Monique Pyrrho, Gabriele Cornelli, Volnei Garrafa
Human dignity, present in the Declaration of Human Rights and also in recent international declarations on bioethics, has currently received harsh criticism as a bioethical term. The imprecise use of the term "dignity", without a clear definition, attrib... see more
Francisco Javier León Correa
This article attempts to base the necessity of widening the field of bioethics in Latin America from clinical ethics to a social bioethics, in order to deal with ethical dilemmas in institutions, public health, healthcare policies and reforms, and legisla... see more
Raúl Villarroel Soto
From a hermeneutic perspective, this article analyzes the statute of medicine as a healing art, considering its particular technical characteristic and its differences with other technical knowledge that delivers goods. This difficulty is compounded by th... see more
Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta
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 Latin American.
Octaviano Humberto Domínguez Márquez
This paper carries on a critical analysis of the figure of conscientious objection as an expression of the achievement of new spaces of liberty in societies in continuous evolution, that however, are still somewhat behind the times, specifically in the ar... see more
Leonor Palomer R.
In order to know more about the petition of informed consent in odontology, we realized a search of information in the database of SciELO and Pub Med, using the key words "informed consent", "odontology" and "autonomy". As a complement, in order to have ... see more
Cléa Adas Saliba Garbin, Artênio José Isper Garbin, Cleide dos Anjos Santos, Patrícia Elaine Gonçalves
The objective of this study was to evaluate: the profile of the surgeon-dentist that undergoes a course in specialization at the Odontology Faculty of Aracatuba/UNESP, Brazil; if they requested informed consent from the patient and/or their legal represen... see more
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