Bioethics Timeline

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BIOETHICS TIMELINE
Bioethics has as a material object the human acts that suppose an intervention on the life, to consider them from a reflection of the "good or the bad." Like Baker wrote: “the role of the bioethicist is not that of watchdog, policing and protecting the boundaries of morality, but rather of facilitator, assisting society to reflectively articulate, interpret, and specify our common morality in the context of the rapidly evolving world of biomedicine."
The most important.
1. Tuskegee Study: In 1932, in Tuskegee, 400 black, poor and mostly illiterate men were the subjects of a clinical study by the Public Health Service of the US Federal Government.
The Tuskegee study did not aim to cure individuals ill with syphilis, but to …show more content…
This experiment generated much controversy and caused changes in the legal protection of patients in clinical studies. The subjects used in this experiment did not give informed consent, were not informed of their diagnosis, and were tricked into telling them that they had "bad blood" and that they could receive free medical treatment, free transportation to the clinic, meals and burial insurance. In case of death if they participated in the study. In 1932, when the study began, the treatments for syphilis were very toxic, dangerous and of questionable effectiveness. Part of the intention of the study was to determine if the benefits of the treatment compensated for its toxicity and to recognize the different stages of the disease to develop appropriate treatments for each of them. The doctors recruited 399 black men, allegedly infected with syphilis, to study the progress of the disease for the next 40 years. The comparison was against 201 healthy men …show more content…
Autonomy is an act of choice: Must meet three conditions:
1. Interintentionality
2. Knowledge and understanding
3. The absence of external control, which may be affected by coercion, manipulation or persuasion.
Respecting autonomy means giving value to the considerations and options of the free people.
4. CIOMS Standard (1982): corresponds to the application of these regulations for medical treatment and research in developing countries. There is a special regulation for children, who have to be represented by their representant, in our country is the mother, and at a certain age, the child can agree.
The consent is given by the guardian and the child can consent from 12 years in women and 14 in men.
The bioethical give us some guidelines of no ethical practices
1-Don ́t treat patients to control the normal development of their condition regardless of possible treatments.
2- Use to experience people with diminished capacity who do not present problems of rejecting the practices, or reacting against them (vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, mentally handicapped,
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