Abstract

ALVAREZ-DIAZ, Jorge Alberto. LATIN AMERICAN BIOETHICS OR BIOETHICS IN LATIN AMERICA?. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.1, pp.10-27. ISSN 1657-4702.

Development of bioethics in Latin America has faced a problem that philosophy faced previously by the middle of the twentieth century: originality of thought. This paper recalls the pessimistic view of Salazar Bondy and optimistic one of Zea about philosophy, as a historical framework to show optimistic and pessimistic contemporary views regarding a "Latin American bioethics". The paper highlights parallels between pessimistic philosophers and pessimistic bioethicists through metaphors like ideas transplantation. Subsequently, the paper traces a path on social studies of science and some extensions that could be made into philosophy and bioethics. It ends by considering that there is not a "native" proposal of "Latin American bioethics," and that it can really be developed as "bioethics in Latin America".

Keywords : Originality; transplant; applied ethics; practical philosophy.

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