Bioethics from a Latin American perspective

Authors

  • Antonio Boscán Leal Universidad del Zulia
  • José Vicente Villalobos Antúnez Universidad del Zulia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/Argumentos/2016.i19.04

Keywords:

Bioethics, Latin America, politics, culture, underdevelopment

Abstract

Most of the specialized writings put bioethics as a contemporary discipline originated in a highly technological culture whose creation has helped to establish controls for the indiscriminate development of technoscience, especially in its uncontrolled application to life in its different expressions with greater emphasis on the human, without full awareness of its effects on the future of our species. Therefore, with bioethics it is intended to contribute to solving the problems of a society with many material resources, highly intellectualized, but still with legal deficiencies, conditioned by a morality without values, and with an ethical conception that often puts the autonomy of man above the common good, the distributive justice and the spirituality of the patient. But what role can be played in non-technified and non-intellectualized societies such as ours, where poverty prevails, failures in the legal system, and in which a structured conception of the human person has not been achieved? On the other hand, will it be possible to give a new meaning to bioethics from a reality such as ours marked by social and political struggles, undertaken by sensitized groups and with a critical awareness of their situation?

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Published

2016-12-31