Abstract

ALARCON, Rodrigo García  and  MONTAGNER, Miguel Ângelo. Epistemology of bioethics: extension from the Latin American perspective. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.2, pp.107-122. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.2256.

The article presents in general terms the epistemological configuration of bioethics, which is essential to determine its field and mode of knowledge. The theoretical revision presents the conceptualization of ethics, of bioethics as an applied ethics and the development of bioethics from its initial conception and its early reductionism, to the expansion and construction of a broad and contextualized Latin American perspective, which extends its field of study and action of individual issues to collective issues, prioritizing issues such as location of resources in health, social exclusion, equity, and forms of discrimination. This development, field and object of study is based on the Epistemological Statute of Bioethics (in its spanish version) and Bases Conceptual da Bioethics - Latin American approach (in Portuguese), of the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Bioethics and Unesco, Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights, an instrument that helped to broaden the conceptual framework of the discipline in which social, health, and environmental aspects are incorporated.

Keywords : epistemology; ethics; bioethics; extension; Latin America.

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