Abstract

ALVAREZ, Jorge Alberto  and  LOPEZ MORENO, Sergio. HOSPITAL BIOETHICS AND HEALTH EDUCATION COMMITTEES: NOTES FOR DISCUSSION. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.1, pp.184-199. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.2343.

This paper takes the Mexican case of the legal requirement of bioethics committees: hospital bioethics committees (CHB; healthcare ethics committees or clinical ethics committees), and ethics committees in research (CEI). The General Health Law makes these committees compulsory since a modification in 2011. The literature says that bioethics committees have at least three basic functions: educational, advisory and normative. For its part, the current legal framework takes up important theoretical elements. One of which corresponds to the functions of bioethics committees. Also, it delves into the analysis of the educational function, since much of the available literature addresses the advisory role. Likewise, some proposals are made regarding contents in educational matters. Thus it is possible to organize groups of ethical problems around the beginning of human life and ethical problems around the end of human life. Indeed, there are many ethical problems along life, but getting in or out of life seems to be more controversial from the ethical point of view.

Keywords : bioethics committees; education in bioethics; euthanasia; voluntary termination of pregnancy.

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