15 articles in this issue
Fernando Lolas Stepke
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Ernesto A. Frontera Roura
The purpose of this paper is to reflect about the strong relationship, of mutual nurturance if you will, seen about issues related to mental health and illness, psychiatry, bioethics and public health. An attempt is made to describe and explain the scope ... see more
This paper addresses the need to consider the valoric constitution of patients and therapists in the context of psychiatric encounters and proposes the notion of axiogram, a depiction of values and moral beliefs to incorporate into the clinical history as... see more
Luis Risco
In ethical terms the profile that the doctor's rôle has acquired in today's society has not been sufficiently considered as an analysis' object neither among the medical corps nor in other reflection instances, even though the effects of this insensible b... see more
Armando Ortiz Pommier
We want to define what we understand as a conflict of interests and its influence upon the relationship doctor-patient when ill managed. We offer antecedents that allow us to infer that the fundamental conflict in the clinical relationship is the so calle... see more
Mario Maj
A conflict of interests occurs when a doctor is unduly influenced by a secondary interest (i.e., a personal incentive) in his acts concerning one of the primary interests to which he is professionally committed (the welfare of patients, the progress of sc... see more
Hernán Silva Ibarra
Recent studies determined that antidepressives of new generation were inadequate for moderate or severe depressions. The improvement these diseases show with medication or with a placebo isn't very different, according to statistics. Antidepressives seem ... see more
Fabio Ferri-de-Barros, Andrew W. Howard, Douglas K. Martin
The purpose of this paper is to describe the national priority setting process for the public health system in Brazil, evaluating the process using the ethical framework Accountability for Reasonableness, and equity considerations highlighted in the 2008 ... see more
Heather Gordon, Lydia Kapiriri, Douglas K. Martin
Purpose: To describe and evaluate priority setting in an Acute Care hospital in Argentina, using Accountability for Reasonableness, an ethical framework for fair priority setting. ?Methods: Case Study involving key informant interviews and document review... see more
Carolina Valdebenito, Lydia Kapiriri, Douglas K. Martin
The purpose of this study was to describe, using qualitative case study methods, and evaluate, using the ethical framework 'accountability for reasonableness', priority setting in a hospital in Chile.?In policy making contexts that have historically been ... see more
Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi Novaes, Luiz Carlos Garcez Novaes, Dirce Guilhem, Fernando Lolas
Objective: To establish a diagnosis of the insertion of bioethics, ethics and humanistic values and attitudes to the program of the Medical School of ESCS - Escola Superior em Ciências da Saúde, public school of medicine, Distrito Federal, Brazil, in orde... see more
Alejandra Gajardo Ugás
People who work at palliative care face many ethical dilemmas. Often they are related with the duty to tell the truth to the patient and to respect his autonomy, in opposition to the duty of caring and not harming.?The autonomy principle is based upon res... see more
Melba Barrantes-Monge, Eduardo Rodríguez, Alexis Lama
Aging suffers prejudices against it. Even among professionals who practice gerontology. A dangerous and common one is to consider that all the elderly are sick or unable.?The relationship doctor-patient is the key stone both for medical practice and ethic... see more
Patricio Ventura-Juncá, Manuel Santos, Juan Larraín
The possibility of using human embryonic stem cells (ESC) for therapeutic purposes raises serious ethical objections, the most fundamental one being that until recently the only way to obtain ESC was with procedures that necessarily destroyed living human... see more
Ramón Florenzano Urzúa