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Volume 15 Number 2 Year 2009

15 articles in this issue 

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

 

Fernando Lolas Stepke

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