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Temas Bioéticos , Bioética , Formação de Conceito , Ética Médica , Ética em Pesquisa , Relações Médico-Paciente , Ética Baseada em Princípios , Religião e Medicina , Aborto Induzido/ética , Cristianismo , Anticoncepção/ética , Anticoncepção/métodos , Cuidados Críticos/ética , Pesquisas com Embriões/ética , Teoria Ética , Eticistas , Europa (Continente) , Pesquisa em Genética/ética , Humanos , Relações Interprofissionais , Princípios Morais , Neonatologia/ética , Autonomia Pessoal , Relações Médico-Paciente/ética , Política , Estados Unidos , VirtudesAssuntos
Temas Bioéticos , Bioética , Catolicismo , Educação Médica/organização & administração , Ética Médica , Direitos Humanos , Bioética/educação , Bioética/tendências , Catolicismo/história , Anticoncepção/ética , Anticoncepção/história , Currículo , Indústria Farmacêutica , Ética em Pesquisa , Liberdade , História do Século XX , História do Século XXI , Direitos Humanos/história , Direitos Humanos/tendências , Humanos , América Latina , Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde , Política , Religião e Medicina , Espanha , Estados UnidosRESUMO
This article focuses on the troubling effects of the secular values of individual freedom and autonomy and their impact on laws regarding suicide and euthanasia. The author argues that in an increasingly secularized culture, death and dying are losing their meaning and are not thought of within a moral framework. The debate regarding the provision of artificial nutrition and hydration is critically considered in light of the history of Catholic morality as well as within the modern healthcare context, and finally with new insight from the recent statements made by the late pope. Drane argues that the pope's insistence on providing artificial nutrition and hydration despite irreversible persistent vegetative states in unconvincing.
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Catolicismo , Cuidados para Prolongar a Vida/ética , Apoio Nutricional/ética , Suspensão de Tratamento/ética , Doença de Alzheimer , Tecnologia Biomédica/ética , Clero , Declaração de Helsinki , Humanos , Cuidados para Prolongar a Vida/legislação & jurisprudência , Futilidade Médica , Cuidados Paliativos/ética , Estado Vegetativo Persistente , Teologia , Valor da VidaRESUMO
The present work aims to discuss some crucial contemporary ethical questions the profession of medicine has to face in order for it to be true to its vocation and its very reason of existence. The commodification that has been impimging in all areas of the globalized world and the conservative waves stemming from the attitude of some religious authorities who put abstract principles before people´s well-being (as is the question of abortion) throw the profession of medicine in an unprecedented crisis that can threaten its very survival. A "professional" is by definition one who makes a public promise to do work for others considered crucial to society and because of this all professional of medicine have a serious responsability regarding the oposition to this unjust state of affairs. As every serious responsability requires a serious commitment, the paper urges all medical professionals, both indiviaduality and collectively, to take a unswering responsability of defending the bioethical principles of beneficence and non-maleficence - the very crux of the profession of medicine.
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Humanos , Bioética/tendências , Medicina , Papel ProfissionalRESUMO
Con este artículo pretendo volver a llamar la atención hacia la conexión histórica entre el significado originalde la palabra griega ethos y la disciplina de la ética, como el ser interior, el espíritu humano o carácter. La ética de la investigación debe incluir la dimensión interna de la ética, así como incluye las normativas y directrices del comportamiento. La historia de la ética de la investigación nos dice que las transgresiones se han producido no por falta de normas, sino por ignorar la dimensión interna de la ética. Actualmente, los investigadores médicos se ven sometidos a tentaciones de autopromoción, asociadas a narcisismo y avaricia, que les puede llevar a ignorar esta dimensión. Los investigadores de hoy no cederán a las presiones de sus propios intereses, si toman ejemplo del origen de los CaballerosHospitalarios de la Edad Media y de investigadores como Henry K. Beecher.
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Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Ética em Pesquisa/história , Ética/história , Pesquisa Biomédica/éticaRESUMO
The idea of writing a chapter on aging seems particularly appropriate. I'm at the right age to address this topic. As I did the preparatory reading and research, I had anunusual experience. For the first time in my life, I felt like an expert. I could judge what people were saying about aging by my own experience. Besides facing aging myself, I work mainly with rural hospitals and nursinghomes and hospice organizations where most of the patients are elderly. Both in my personal life and in my work, I am surrounded by the realities of aging and dying.In a recent book entitled Gray Dawn on the economics and politics of aging, the author, Peter Peterson used a gripping metaphor to describe the challenge of anincreasing aging population. Global aging, he said, is like a massive iceberg which very well could destroy even the most powerful economic vessels in the world. The agingpopulation worldwide, according to this author, threatens human survival and is the most important challenge we face in the 21st century. His iceberg metaphor highlights the danger of global aging and the fact the all human beings are exposed to this danger.
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Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Idoso , Envelhecimento , Bioética , Morte , Dinâmica Populacional , DepressãoRESUMO
Recent visits to five Latin American nations indicate that some medical professionals are eager to increase the role of bioethics in their countries. Conversations with key figures there point up similarities and differences among Latin nations, and between Latin countries and the United States, in their approaches to ethics. Opportunities exist for U.S. bioethicists to help get bioethics teaching and research off the ground in Latin America.
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Bioética , Ética Médica , Cooperação Internacional , Internacionalidade , Academias e Institutos , Argentina , Temas Bioéticos , Bolívia , Brasil , Catolicismo , Chile , Códigos de Ética , Colômbia , Diversidade Cultural , Atenção à Saúde , Educação Médica , Revisão Ética , Ética , Comissão de Ética , Comitês de Ética em Pesquisa , Ética Profissional , Experimentação Humana , Humanos , Consentimento Livre e Esclarecido , Jurisprudência , América Latina , Paternalismo , Relações Médico-Paciente , Médicos , Sistemas Políticos , Valores Sociais , Sociedades , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Medicina EstatalAssuntos
Bioética , Ética Médica , Socialismo/história , Serviços de Saúde/normas , Serviços de Saúde/legislação & jurisprudência , Atenção à Saúde/tendências , Justiça Social/legislação & jurisprudência , Justiça Social/história , Atenção à Saúde/normas , Atenção à Saúde/economia , Sistemas de Saúde , Previdência SocialRESUMO
Truly professional medical ethics requires a methodology that generates both moral discernment and consistently right judgments. In this article the author briefly reviews difficulties involved in ethical decision-making, the historical development of casuistry and four ethical methodologies employed in clinical medicine today. These latter, which are outlined and compared, are as follows: the methodology developed by David Thomasma in the 1960s and 1970s; one created by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade; another developed by the author; and the Bochum Protocol authored by Hans-Martin Sass et. al. of the Bochum Center for Medical Ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany
Available in Spanish in Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam 108(5/6):415-25, 1990
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Bioética , Ética Médica , Estágio ClínicoRESUMO
Available in Spanish in Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam 108(5/6):595-8, 1990
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Bioética , Ética Médica , Justiça Social , Previdência Social , Socialismo , América Latina , América do Norte , Atenção à Saúde , Serviços de Saúde , Atenção à Saúde , Sistemas de SaúdeRESUMO
Truly professional medical ethics requires a methodology that generates both moral discernment and consistently right judgments. In this article the author briefly reviews difficulties involved in ethical decision-making, the historical development of casuistry and four ethical methodologies employed in clinical medicine today. These latter, which are outlined and compared, are as follows: the methodology developed by David Thomasma in the 1960s and 1970s; one created by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade; another developed by the author; and the Bochum Protocol authored by Hans-Martin Sass et. al. of the Bochum Center for Medical Ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany
