Bioethics today

Medicine, health and bioethics today and tomorrow

Medicine is the entire history of the human race still finding their place alongside men. Allowed him all the joy of life as it should be viewed as a brilliant array of knowledge and skills that enable human quality of life. So it was from the earliest days of human history when its parts considered sorcerers' skills, or all sorts of witchcraft. Today's medicine is considered a modern scientifi...

Bioethics today, bioethics tomorrow: stem cell research and the "dignitarian alliance".

Vulnerability and bare life: bioethics and biopolitics today

The study had the objective of analyzing the notion of vulnerability that is used by bioethics to debate research involving human beings today, from refl ections on biopolitics in contemporary culture. For this, the starting point was Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Foucault’s model of power (Sovereignty and Biopolitics), with the aim of subsequently analyzing the notion of bare life: “life withou...

[Vulnerability and bare life: bioethics and biopolitics today].

The study had the objective of analyzing the notion of vulnerability that is used by bioethics to debate research involving human beings today, from reflections on biopolitics in contemporary culture. For this, the starting point was Giorgio Agamben's reading of Foucault's model of power (Sovereignty and Biopolitics), with the aim of subsequently analyzing the notion of bare life: "life without...

Bioethics for clinicians: 22. Jewish bioethics.

Jewish bioethics in the contemporary era emerges from the traditional practice of applying principles of Jewish law (Halacha) to ethical dilemmas. The Bible (written law) and the Talmud (oral law) are the foundational texts on which such deliberations are based. Interpretation of passages in these texts attempts to identify the duties of physicians, patients and families faced with difficult he...