La ambigüedad de los principios de la bioética
ISSN: 1132-1989, 2386-3773
Ano de publicación: 2010
Volume: 21
Número: 71
Páxinas: 39-48
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Cuadernos de bioética
Resumo
The principles of the bioethics, coined in United States at the end of the seventies and diffused in our social environment one decade later, enclose inside a semantic ambiguity that here it is analyzed in their master lines; this ambiguity oscillates between a relativistic meaning and another agreed with the classic concept of Nature; this ambiguity has been transmitted to who, being part of the fi eld of the Hippocratic medical ethics, have adopted its terminology, and these are the immense majority of the medical class. This phenomenon is easily leading towards the abandonment of the medical ethics based on the natural law (the Hippocratic–Christian tradition), to make it fi nish in a more or less clear relativism. To avoid this problem, some solutions in the fi eld of the medical ethical terminology are proposed.
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