25 articles in this issue
Fernando Lolas Stepke
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Claudia Donoso Sabando
The positions on this issue move on a continuum ranging from ultra-conservative to the most liberal movements. In this context establishing health policies based on absolute moral systems doesn’t result in political or ethical correctness in pluralistic s... see more
Mauricio Besio Rollero
The issue of induced abortion, in general, and the called therapeutic abortion in particular, has generated a lot of concern for both the medical profession, as well as for all society. They involve important values for individuals and for the entire popu... see more
Carlos Y. Valenzuela
This study shows the inapplicability of the doctrine of double effect (DDE) to all the cases of therapeutic abortion (TA). The causes of the maternal risk define cases that cannot be included in the DDE. When it is not the embryo or fetus that produces th... see more
Justo Aznar, Miriam Martínez, Pedro Navarro
The search for IVF efficacy leads to a higher embryo production than it is necessary for implantation; this results in an excess of embryos which are kept frozen. This amount of frozen embryos inevitably increases. The donation/adoption are among the poss... see more
Alvaro Olivo Yépez, Pascual Linares Márquez, Ana Isabel Suárez Guerrero, Ana María Aguirre Guzmán
The utilization of human embryos in the biological research has generated a bioethical debate from the ontological point of view about whether or not to consider the embryo as a human person. This paper review the ontological statute of the human embryo f... see more
Iñigo De Miguel Beriain, Elena Atienza Macías, Emilio José Armaza Armaza
In February 2015 the United Kingdom took the first step towards the adoption of mitochondrial transfer as a therapeutic technique. Theoretically, it will make it possible for many women to get rid of pathologies associated with mitochondrial defects. Howe... see more
Graciela Moya
Mitochondrial diseases are a clinically heterogeneous group of disorders with variable clinical features and high morbidity and mortality. As there are different hereditary patterns, complex implications in reproduction are expected; the recurrence risk m... see more
Ana Cecilia González
Assisted reproduction techniques, in particular of heterologous type, open a variety of issues in the intersection of science, rights and subjectivity. In this paper we focus on the relation between the recently approved Argentinian legislation and the re... see more
Gustavo Figueroa Cave
Psychoanalysis and neuroethics are concerned with ethical issues arising in the application of techniques and technologies stemming from the sciences of the mind. There is considerable overlap between the topics covered in neuroethics and in conceptual is... see more
Iñigo Álvarez Gálvez
John Stuart Mill didn’t take his life; but he could have done it. If he had done it, when he was twenty (as he planned), we would never have known what he thought about it. But he didn’t. And many years later he wrote about nature, God, religion and auton... see more
Boris Julián Pinto Bustamante
Within the current discussions on immunization practices, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) made various challenges from bioethics: firstly, there are controversies regarding the efficacy and safety profile of marketed vaccines, and with respect to their cost-ef... see more
Andreia Souza de Jesus, Luanna Rodrigues de Jesus, Vanessa De Oliveira Vieira, Edite Lago Da Silva Sena, Rita Narriman Silva de Oliveira Boery, Sérgio Donha Yarid
Mass vaccination is the collective achievement of immunization practice, using strategies such as campaigns, task forces and locks, made without considering the epidemic risks and other issues, resulting in the loss of autonomy and vulnerability of indivi... see more
Germán Novoa-Heckel, Juan Asbún-Bojalil, María de la Luz Sevilla-González
The international pharmacovigilance system collects adverse drug events reported by physicians in their clinical practice. Adverse drug reactions (ADR) reported are scarce. We designed a questionnaire based on a 5-point Likert scale. The questionnaire (24... see more
Annette Aalborg, Sarah Sullivan, Jacqueline Cortes, Armando Basagoitia, Daniel Illanes, Matthew Green
Research and research ethics (RE) capacity is a key element for addressing health priorities of low - and middle-income countries (LMICs). With support from a NIH/FIC Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development grant, a RE Training of Trainers (T... see more
Bruna Zago, Liliane Mayumi Swiech, Elcio Luiz Bonamigo, Bruno Rodolfo Schlemper Junior
Manuel Pérez Ayala
This article relates bioethics and psychiatric disabilities. Through interviews with professional teams that representing the unit of analysis, describe the objectives of existing bioethical considerations in interventions for people with psychiatric disa... see more
Leonor Palomer Roggerone
Although access to health care is a right in Chile, various surveys and studies show that not all Chileans have equal rates of oral health. The most deprived populations, rural, ethnic minority and older have traditionally exhibited worst results in studi... see more
Tiago Viterbo de Faria, Juliana Dias Reis Pessalacia, Eduardo Sérgio Da Silva
Descriptive and exploratory, retrospective study, conducted from the collection of the records of patients in a hematological unit of a large hospital in the city of Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the aim of identifying risk factors in the use of... see more
Paola Conde Higuera, María Luisa Pimentel Ramírez, Adolfo Díaz Ávila, Tomás Domingo Moratalla
This article discloses the results of an research into the process of stigma and discrimination in children with HIV and aids, and the impact they have on adherence from a bioethics perspective. It is a deliberative hermeneutical study using narrative in ... see more
Daniel López López, Rosa Mary De la Campa Portela, Marta Elena Losa Iglesias, José Ramos Galván, Pedro Vicente Munuera Martínez, Matilde García Sánchez, Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo4
Objective: To explore attitudes towards conscientious objections among podiatrists students in Spain. Methods: Podiatrists students at University of A Coruña, King Rey Juan Carlos University, University of Sevilla and Complutense University of Madrid were... see more
Diana Pasmanik Volochinsky, María José Rodríguez Araneda, María Isabel Reyes Espejo, Mario Tarride Fernández
Looking for Industrial Engineering professional ethos reconstruction from its actors’ subjectivity, a qualitative research on professional experience and meaning construction on ethics and interculturality, in Chilean Industrial engineers and students who... see more
Lourdes Velásquez