Abstract

INSUA, Jorge Tomás. Principlism, Personalist Bioethics and Principles of Action in Medicine and Health Services. pers.bioét. [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.2, pp.223-246. ISSN 0123-3122.  https://doi.org/10.5294/pebi.2018.22.2.3.

Since there is a gap and differences between bioethical concepts and other principles of action arising from the practice of modern medicine, their comparison is reasonable. Modern medicine has created principles of action based on evidence and principles of quality in medicine, and bioethical argumentation frequently resorts to principlism or personalist bioethics. This article intends to illustrate the characteristics of the relationships between these concepts and their potential mutual enrichment. A simple, practical comparison matrix is proposed to compare the relationship between principles. These concepts have a significant overlap; however, both in the history of ideas and in their formulation, they are very dissimilar. Emphasis is placed on the contextual value of this analysis given by global health trends and some implications for medicine from personalist bioethics.

Keywords : Bioethics; principlism; personalism; evidence-based medicine; technology assessment; quality; quality of health care; safety.

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