Browsing by Subject "Bioethics"
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(2007)This article is an account of the «Heidelberg School» of German anthropological medicine that culminated in the work of Viktor von Weizsäcker. It describes the main stages of its development, its relationships with U.S. ...
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(1997)This editorial examines the challenges posed by the current epidemiological transition towards ageing of societies, against the background of medical technologies: life-saving, life-sustaining and life-enhancing. Increased ...
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(2010)In Chile there are diverse governmental and social instances to work with the health of indigenous populations and there has been fruitful outcome; nevertheless, some health care access and coverage inequities persist in ...
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Bioethics and animal research. A personal perspective and a note on the contribution of Fritz Jahr (SOC BIOLGIA CHILE, 2008)Reviewing fundamental aspects of bioethics and outlining the work of the Bioethics Program of the Pan American Health Organization, this paper draws attention to the work of a forgotten pioneer- Fritz Jahr- who coined the ...
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(2010)This article brings up Islam perspective towards life. Islam is not presented as an "illustrated" religion and vanguard of European "rational" history, nor, by defect, as an "assault" towards the contemporary liberal values ...
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(2009)From a hermeneutic perspective, this article analyzes the statute of medicine as a healing art, considering its particular technical characteristic and its differences with other technical knowledge that delivers goods. ...
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(1997)Bioethics arose in a delicate social and political moment in the United States of America. With time, it has become a social and perhaps political movement. Its scope is wider and different than that of medical ethics. ...
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(2008)The present paper reflects about the new bioethics teaching modality that employs a platform of virtual teaching. It points out this model's advantages and difficulties and the challenges it faces in order to reach an ...
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(2006)Introduction: The objective of this study was to explore which are the limits to confidentiality that 31 psychiatrists, from Santiago (Chile) and Medellín (Colombia), consider as appropriate when dealing with information ...
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(2011)Conscience objection is described in clinical practice as a professional right, based mainly in freedom of conscience. A bibliographical review of last ten years is carried out to know the real meaning, extent and ...
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(Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud, 2014)© 2014, Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud. All rights reserved. In clinical practice, the conflict due to conscientious objection arises when confronting the right of professional objection to free conscience and the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Depto. de. Linguística, 2015)Considerando que el transhumanismo es una particular deriva de la reflexión contemporánea, que sostiene la idea de que el actual estado de la humanidad no es el definitivo sino uno simplemente transitorio, que puede y ...
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(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2008-09)This review emphasizes the importance of recent developments and knowledge on cell biology and human genetics than have integrated, through a basic-clinical concept, to an emerging branch of medicine, called Perinatal ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Centro Interdisciplinario Estudios Bioética, 2020)This article reviews ethical reflections about genetic research and genetic manipulation published in 20 years of Acta Bioethica. The following relevant topics are identified in bioethics dialogue: risks evaluation, inequity, ...
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(2009)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 ...
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(2013)This article reflects about the ethical issues generated in society by the production and use of transgenic or genetically modified food manufactured by biotechnology, such as: the commercial interests that guide this new ...
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(Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud, 2012)This paper reviews the experience in training Latin American professionals and scientists in the ethics of biomedical and psychosocial research at the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies in Bioethics (CIEB) of the University ...
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(Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2018)La comunicación en salud pública y, en especial en un escenario de crisis, como una epidemia, está atravesada por conflictos éticos, desde los valores hasta la deontología. En un mundo intercomunicado, la contención ...
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(Universidad de Concepción, Chile, 2020)La investigación con fauna silvestre tiene diversos propósitos como la conservación de especies, gestión ambiental y generación de conocimiento. El objetivo de los Comités Institucionales de Cuidado y Uso de Animales (CICUAs) ...
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(2007)This essay tries to show a moral, social and politically relevant debate in Chile: the controversy about emergency contraception and the decision of government authorities to authorize state health care services to distribute ...