12 articles in this issue
Sergio Zorrilla F.
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Jean Ladrière
The following text shows us the reflections made by Jean Ladrière concerning the sense and meaning of bioethics in the context of what is known today as the growth of “applied ethics”. From the first considerations he refuses accepting the idea that “regi... see more
Fernando Lolas Stepke
This paper presents an approach to the process of valoric construction based on natural language, as characteristic of the world of life. It si suggested that this language reflects explicit and implicit anthropological conceptions within a given communit... see more
Gonzalo Figueroa Yáñez
The author's objective is to ask himself how the "leading principles" referring to human genome have integrated in a supra national level (especially in Latin America) understanding as such the ethical values and legal regulations founded upon them. In th... see more
Adelio Misseroni Raddatz
Given the conceptual confusion that exists about the term euthanasia, the objective of this monograph consists of elucidating the sense and reach of this expression, from a legal and penal perspective, and by so doing, determine what behaviors are legally... see more
Pedro Federico Hooft Lauterslager
The objective of this research is to analyze, from a bioethical and legal perspective, one of the particularly complex situations in which a woman -and her family- might find themselves in front of a diagnosis of anencephalic fetus, and to consider weathe... see more
This article proposes the concepts of legality and legitimacy to the ethical analysis of medical publications. Legality refers to the compliance with procedures accepted by the scientific community related to validity, reliability, and solvency of the res... see more
Trajano Sardenberg, Sergio S. Müller, Hamilton R. Pereira, Reinaldo A. Oliveira, William S. Hossne
The concern with ethical standards during research in human subjects has been improving in Brazil during the last decade. Analysis of the ethical recommendations in instructions to authors may contribute to understand Brazilian Scientific Journals p... see more
María Lucrecia Rovaletti
In the presence of the problems posed by new technologies, traditional medical ethics is not able to respond satisfactorily. At the present time, research and biotechnological experimental applications are more and more numerous and artificial, following ... see more
Jorge Luis Manzini
This paper consists in a particularised analysis of the Declaration of Helsinki, revised at the 52nd WMA General Assembly at Edinburgh in October 2000.The framework was as follows: 1) an introduction to the subject 2) a general consideration about formal ... see more
Favio Rivas M.
Violence is still on the increase even though the world is no longer divided. With the fall of the Berlin wall most of us were expecting the end of wars, something that never happened. On the other hand, internal conflicts in the third world have become m... see more