Reflections on medical bioethics
Keywords:
bioethics, medical ethics, autonomyAbstract
Bioethics, a discipline that has advanced extraordinarily during the last twenty years, is associated to everything related to human health, and is considered a topic of increasing public value as the technological and political aspect of medicine is accentuated. This paper aims to expose the main topics covered by bioethics in the health sciences. A review of bioethics was made from a sociological-preventive approach in primary health care—its main setting—, scenery to understand the peculiar nature of bioethical problems and how to deal with them, an imperative that brings into line with reality a scientific and professional debate, which compromises the whole fate of medical practice. It was possible to summarize aspects related to the history of bioethics and the treatment that this discipline provides to certain medical aspects in the elderly, in children with special needs, in medical genetics, in scientific research, and in the context of COVID-19. It was shown that the actions of health professionals are aimed at the comprehensive protection of the health of individuals, families and communities with a preventive approach from primary care.Downloads
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