The first bioethics textbook for nurses in our country has been published the leading domestic publishing house of educational literature KNORUS [1]. This, without a doubt, can be called long-awaited event. fact is that until now, despite importance ethical problems work nurses, there was little relevant material, it not systematized, moreover, some medical colleges no such subject as curriculu...

Comité international de bioéthique (CIB) International Bioethics Committee (IBC) INTRODUCTION 1. The Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, in Article 2 concerning its implementation, underscores the need to identify practices such as germ-line interventions that might be contrary to human dignity and assigns responsibility for this to the International Bioethics Committee ...

Abstract This study analyzes Law 13,979/2020 (Quarantine Law), according to the principles established by Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights , identify main similarities differences between both legal frameworks in terms of determinations imposed former combat COVID-19. A bibliographic documental search was conducted constitutional legislation, Executive’s norms, international ...

Bioethics must have an intercultural perspective. This is based on three facts: The principles and values around which reflection is made are related to world views and traditions, human beings are cultural beings, and current societies are considerably diverse. Based on this, bioethics will seek an adequate balance between ethical universalism and contextualism. This is a fundamental step for ...

Bioethics' traditional focus on clinical relationships and exotic technologies has led the field away from population health, health disparities, and issues of justice. The result: a myopic view that misses the institutional context in which clinical relationships operate and can overlook factors that affect health more broadly than do exotic technologies. A broader bioethics agenda would take ...

In this paper we review articles concerning the limits of therapeutic effort that have been published in the past decade in journals directed at health professionals. Most of these articles are opinion pieces in which the influence of principlism is clear, even going so far as to justify the right to terminate life based on patient autonomy. It is time for personalistic bioethics to transmit it...

From the Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, OH*; the Department of Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, and Bioethics Center, University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina, Greenville, NC ; and the Center for the Study of Bioethics and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. § ...