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    • Mesa Maldonado, Macarena; Pérez Hernández, Iván (Sociedad Médica Santiago, 2020)
      Telemedicine partially resolved inequalities in access to health care, especially in geographical areas with a low number of doctors and in places with absent or insufficient specialists. Currently, Chile has a National ...
    • Valenzuela Yuraidini, Carlos (Universidad de Chile, Centro Interdisciplinario Estudios Bioética, 2016)
      This study shows the inapplicability of the doctrine of double effect (DDE) to all the cases of therapeutic abortion (TA). The causes of the maternal risk define cases that cannot be included in the DDE. When it is not the ...
    • Salas, Sofía P.; Salinas Ríos, Rodrigo Alejandro; Besio, Mauricio; Micolich, Constanza; Arriagada Urzúa, Anamaría; Misseroni Raddatz, Adelio; Valenzuela, Carlos Y.; Novoa, Fernando; Bórquez Estefó, Gladys (Sociedad Médica Santiago, 2020)
      The discussion of a bill that allows medically assisted death (MAD) in Chile, revived the debate about the ethics of this practice. The Department of Ethics of the Chilean Medical Association herein analyzes arguments in ...
    • Stahl, Bernd Carsten; Akintoye, Simisola; Fothergill, B. Tyr; Guerrero, Manuel; Knight, Will; Ulnicane, Inga (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      The increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to help facilitate neuroscience adds a new level of complexity to the question of how ethical issues of such research can be identified and addressed. ...
    • Nogales-Gaete, Jorge; Vargas-Silva, Paola; Vidal-Cañas, Iván (2013)
      Providing information to patients and relatives (IPAR) is a clinical, ethical and legal need. IPAR is inherent to the medical team work as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are. In some cases, it is a key step for ...
    • Bascu��n, Mar�a Luz; Arriagada, Ana Mar�a (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      � 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. For several years and in many different ways, medical errors have been studied. As expected, the majority of efforts have been directed to prevent clinical errors ...
    • Bascuñán Rodríguez, María Luz; Arriagada Urzúa, Ana María (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2016)
      For several years and in many different ways, medical errors have been studied. As expected, the majority of efforts have been directed to prevent clinical errors during the different phases of health care. Nevertheless, ...
    • López, P. Ricardo (2009)
      Creating and copying are two different processes; we must not confuse creativity with plagiarism. However, this distinction is problematic, because there is no possibility of creating from scratch, this implies that any ...
    • Rosselot Jaramillo, Eduardo; Bravo Lechat, Mireya; Lang, Miguel; Valenzuela Yuraidini, Carlos; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Thambo Becker, Sergio; Horwitz Campos, Nina; Acevedo Pérez, Irene; Rueda Castro, Laura; Sotomayor, María Angélica (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2008-05)
      Plagiarism is defined as the intellectual fraud in which an individual attempts to unduly appropriate, for his/her own benefit, the knowledge, ideas or discoveries of someone else. It is not uncommon in academic settings ...
    • Schwartz Perlroth, Daniel; Loewenstein, George; Aguero Gaete, Loreto (Nature, 2020)
      Promoting products for 'green' people has become an important strategy to encourage sustainable consumption. We test the effectiveness of the green identity labelling technique, which encourages pro-environmental purchases ...
    • Aicardi, Christine; Akintoye, Simisola; Fothergill, B. Tyr; Guerrero Antequera, Manuel; Klinker, Gudrun; Knight, William; Klüver, Lars; Morel, Yannick; Morin, Fabrice O.; Carsten Stahl, Bernd; Ulnicane, Inga (Springer, 2020)
      The interdisciplinary field of neurorobotics looks to neuroscience to overcome the limitations of modern robotics technology, to robotics to advance our understanding of the neural system's inner workings, and to information ...
    • Pérez Castro, Pablo; Salas, Sofia P. (Wiley, 2021)
      Organ transplantation is a lifesaving procedure for end-organ damage and remains up to today as the most cost-effective alternative to treat these conditions. However, the main limitation to performing organ transplants ...
    • Echeverría Carlos, B.; Goic Goic, Alejandro; Herrera C., Carolina; Quintana V., Carlos; Rojas O., Alberto; Salinas R, Rodrigo; Serani M., Alejandro; Taboada R., Paulina; Vacarezza Y., Ricardo (2011)
      Right to life -as the prohibition of intentionally and arbitrarily taking life, even with authorization of the concerned one- is an internationally recognized right. In many countries, debate regarding euthanasia is more ...
    • Cabello Andrade, Juan Francisco; Novoa, Fernando; Huff, Hanalise V.; Colombo Campbell, Marta Paulina (MDPI, 2021)
      Newborn screening (NBS) has widely been utilized in developed countries as a costeffective public health strategy that reduces morbidity and mortality. Developing countries, however, are new to the NBS scene and have ...
    • Manuel, Oyarzún G.; María Eugenia, Pinto C.; Gina G., Raineri B.; Amigo, Hugo; Lucía, Cifuentes O.; González, María Julieta; Nina, Horwitz C.; Claudia, Marshall F.; Gricel, Orellana V. (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2014)
      © 2014, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. The welfare of research participants must be guaranteed by international ethical standards. This article communicates the procedures of the Research Ethics Committee ...
    • Paredes E., María Cristina; Pesse Sorensen, Karen; Barros Rubio, Ximena (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2020)
      On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that the number of cases of COVID-19 multiplied by 13 outside China, with a threefold increase in the number of affected countries. The WHO expressed its ...
    • Villarroel Soto, Raúl (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, 2007)
      A partir del propósito de distinguirse de las expresiones clásicas de ética ambiental conocidas hasta el momento, el artículo presenta una apología filosófica del medioambiente, sustentada en una hermenéutica de la ...
    • Villarroel Soto, Raúl (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, 2006)
      El presente trabajo intenta examinar algunas implicancias problemáticas suscitadas a la hora de preguntarse si en la filosofía de Martin Heidegger hay lugar para una ética. Esta pregunta ha sido formulada reiteradamente ...
    • Pliscoff Varas, Cristian Humberto; Lagos Machuca, Nicolás Francisco (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021)
      Governments have deployed different strategies for controlling corruption and to reinforce the ethical frameworks of public employees. Traditionally, a normative or "obedience" approach has been adopted, which highlights ...
    • Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Silva, Jaime R.; Prenafeta, María Luisa; Novoa, Fernando (2009)
      The neuro-scientific study of moral actions and judgments is particularly relevant to medicine, especially when assessing behavior disorders secondary to brain diseases. In this paper, moral behavior is reviewed from an ...