15 articles in this issue
Fernando Lolas
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César Cárcamo Quezada
Physicians belief in objectivity without parenthesis, which assumes, in one side, the real existence of scientific truth and, in the other, confers the possibility of knowing such truth leaving aside subjectivity, which determines that certain physician-p... see more
José Roque Junges
The birth of Bioethics is associated to several persons and facts of the North American context. But this is only the surface of its origin. The article aims to show that bioethics is linked with the emerging of the management of life through the biopower... see more
Antonieta Valderrama Sandoval, Rodrigo López Barreda
Generally, conscience is understood as an individual and subjective character of human being; nevertheless, re- cently its rational character has been highlighted and subjected to external evaluation criteria. The application of moral conscience judgments... see more
Fabiola Villela Cortés, Jorge E. Linares Salgado
Eugenics is a topic treated for several reasons by, among others, historians, philosophers, physicians, bioethicists. The idea to improve human race always has been present in the history of civilization, to try to consolidate it as a science also has bee... see more
Verónica Anguita M., M. Angélica Sotomayor
It is frequent that in social or biomedical research certain expressions are used as synonymous, even having different meanings. This is the case of “anonymous” and “confidential”. Being diverse concepts, they have in common to refer to an information con... see more
Gustavo Figueroa
Bioethics has deeply transformed medical ethics, appealing to other principles and practices. The present work tries to understand traditional western medical ethics by recurring to its description in artistic narrative, because this descri- bes with spec... see more
M. Ahmad, N. Akhtar, M. H.A. Awan, G. Murtaza
Our aim in this study is to give a broad overview of the main ethical and legal challenges of pharmaceutical market- ing. The purpose of this study was also to investigate unethical pharmaceutical marketing, the effect on physicians of receiv- ing gifts, ... see more
Carolina Martin, Bryn Williams-Jones, María Graciela de Ortúzar
Una amplia gama de tecnologías biomédicas y genéticas ya se encuentra disponible tanto en los países desar- rollados como en vías de desarrollo. De allí la importancia de evaluar dichas tecnologías para su ulterior inclusión en los programas de salud públ... see more
Ricardo Páez Moreno
Research sponsored by pharmacy industry obeys to scientific interests of highest quality, but at the same time to several economic interests, since being funded by transnational corporations must be subjected to rules imposed by market. This article quest... see more
Mara Muñoz Salinas
The present study is a review based on bibliographic search, interviews and the experience of the author about health care process, as it is currently done, for parents that face the death of their child. This research belongs to the qualita- tive paradig... see more
Julio Arturo Canario Guzmán
he aim of this study is to describe the situation of scientific ethical review committees in Dominican Republic, in terms both their organization, composition, activities and training needs, and the level of following recommendations offered by Internatio... see more
Blanca Lucía Acosta de Velásquez, Eddy Pérez-Then, Héctor Fabio Mueses Marín, Elisa María Pinzón Gómez, Gail Shor-Posner
Objective: To know attitude of students at three dental schools in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, toward HIV+ patients. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with using a questionnaire to 1173 invited to attend students from three dental schools in Cali. ... see more
Fernando Lolas Stepke, Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta
Ethics of biomedical and psychosocial research program, Interdisciplinary Center for Studies on Bioethics, University of Chile, Grant Fogarty International Center R25TWOO6056
Fernando Lolas Stepke