16 articles in this issue
Sergio Zorrilla Fuenzalida
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Eduardo Díaz Amado
Bioethics, in providing a stage for interdisciplinary discussion has as its challenge to argue in a context in which there is a multiplicity of ethical voices. The world today, consists of moral "relatives" and moral "strangers", as said by T Engelhardt; ... see more
Michel Maffesoli, Lorenzo Agar Corbinos
Urban areas are experiencing a latent rebellion, which is manifesting itself in numerous forms; each wave the culmination of increasing variety and imagination. Violence, a physical expression of this rebellion captures the hatred felt towards the establi... see more
Diego Gracia Guillén
Human Beings are respectable because they are Human Beings; not because they have the same worth or share the same beliefs. A new generation of human rights necessitates a new process of legitimization of political institutions. This is the essence of "De... see more
Debora Diniz
Este artículo analiza el discurso bioético y su propuesta de mediación en los conflictos morales en el terreno de la salud. Defiende la importancia de las teorías bioéticas reconocieren los principios de la incertidumbre y de la suficiencia de lo real com... see more
Fernando Lolas Stepke
This paper emphasizes the need to integrate bioethical reflection with the results of empirical social sciences, defined as those disciplines which describe and predict behavior of individuals and groups and strive at general causality principles. Cultiva... see more
Dietrich Von Engelhardt
Euthanasia refers to man's self image and his world's image; also to understanding sickness and death. In ancient times it meant an honorable and pleasant death and not the end of an active life. The art of death in the Christian Middle Ages was part of t... see more
Marcelo Arnold Cathalifaud
In this article social system theory was applied in order to analyze the repercussions of bioscientific applications in contemporary society, and furthermore in order to explain the risk status of a habitual means of communication. From this perspective, ... see more
James Drane
The basic philosophical vision and ethical principles of Catholic Natural Law claim universality. Natural Law thinking aspires to objectivity and universality and at the same time is open to the continuing influence from history and politics. The backgrou... see more
Pedro Morandé Court
Bioethics' interdisciplinary interchange, difficult and arduous, is this article's aim. First of all in relation to bioethics' fortuitous novelty and creativity from the mind's point of view. Essentially this reflection develops within philosophy's field,... see more
Leonides Santos y Vargas
This text proposes a number of reflections that issue fron the recent advancements that have taken place in investigations on the Human Genoma Project, which lead to the accelerated reinforcement of biomedical knowledge and technologies. The new statement... see more
Laura Rueda Castro, Orquídea Miranda Zúñiga
The difficulty to achieve full participation and social integration of people with handicap is recognized at world level, situation that involves fundamental ethical values. The application of bioethic principles directed towards the professional chore un... see more
María Lucrecia Rovaletti
The desire of knowledge, one of man's most important goals, there are also mixed wishes of other type, like ambition or competition, which can deviate him from his uninterested objectives. That is why there are many people who throw a suspect on this libi... see more