Abstract

GARCIA URIBE, John Camilo. Intellectual Property, Patents, and Health: a Look from Bioethics. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp.25-40.  Epub Dec 31, 2021. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.5076.

This is a reflexive and argumentative article which intention is to confront conceptual references from bioethics and the right to solve the following questions: are intellectual property rights the antithesis of other rights? Is there a conflict of bioethical principles in this discussion? How to address from Bioethics this difference in point of views? Is a paradigm shift necessary to transform the prevailing individualism of contemporaneity and avoid the damages of a war of plunder masked behind a euphemism of market competition and intellectual property? Between arguments, questions and dissents, an approach to these dilemmas is sought with a bioethical approach. Cooperation is on the table based on empathy and compassion to divert it from the path of pernicious individualism and the subsequent voracity of money and power. Therefore bioethics, as a bridge to the future is the discipline called to manifest this cooperation, not only in disciplinary areas, but between the different social stakeholders, among those main players of this work, so that its end is not tragic, but hopeful and healthy.

Keywords : intellectual property; patents; bioethical discussions; value of life; capitalism.

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