Abstract

MOREIRA CORGOZINHO, Marcelo; GOMES, Jacqueline R.A.A.  and  GARRAFA, Volnei. BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTS IN BRAZIL: THE BIOETHICAL DIMENSION. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.1, pp.36-45. ISSN 1657-4702.

This study intends to analyze the practice of bone marrow transplants in Brazil from the perspective of Bioethics. Starting from the constitutional Brazilian tenet that health is a right belonging to every person, it analyzes the question of access to specialized medical services by socially vulnerable citizens. It presents the legal outlook of this field of scientific knowledge in the country, presenting its general legislation dealing with organ and tissue transplants, besides the specific regulations related to bone marrow transplants, including the logistics of public support for the development of the medical care process. Considering aspects related to the use of Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and taking Bioethics as reference, it discusses the vulnerability of socioeconomically deprived patients, the government's public responsibility toward these people, and the need to provide them with the proper protection, keeping in mind the social patterns of inequality observed in peripheral countries such as Brazil.

Keywords : Brazil; Bone Marrow transplants; the right to health; social vulnerability; Bioethics.

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