Bioética¿la Circe de la Medicina?

Background: Recent development in the biomedical fields have led to considerable moral perplexity, about the rights and duties of health professionals, patients and research subjects. Since about 1970 bioethics have become involved in an ongoing discussion of the complex ethical issues raised by the...

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Autor principal: Figueroa C,Gustavo
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2001
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720010002000142001-04-09Bioética¿la Circe de la Medicina?Figueroa C,Gustavo Bioethics Education, medical Ethics, medical Background: Recent development in the biomedical fields have led to considerable moral perplexity, about the rights and duties of health professionals, patients and research subjects. Since about 1970 bioethics have become involved in an ongoing discussion of the complex ethical issues raised by these developments. Objective: To review the precise relationship between Nietzsche’s ontology and an eventual bioethics. Method: The author intends to give a picture of how ontological factors have influenced the beginnings of bioethics. Results: Ethics for Nietzsche symbolizes Circe, the enchantress in Homer’s Odyssey. Nietzsche’s task is to proclaim the emptiness (devaluation) of all traditional values, thus soliciting a rejection of them. But bioethics must not be content with merely replacing the old values by new ones. v.g. by filling the place left by the supreme values. Conclusions: Despite the efforts to overcome technicity, bioethics remains locked in the subject-ism of which technicity is but a consequence. Nietzsche’s special insight is to perceive that the interpretation of beings currenthy prevalent is valueless, for it is an interpretation that has returned to values that are precisely without an value at all (Rev Méd Chile 2001; 129: 209-17).info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.129 n.2 20012001-02-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872001000200014es10.4067/S0034-98872001000200014
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Bioethics
Education, medical
Ethics, medical
spellingShingle Bioethics
Education, medical
Ethics, medical
Figueroa C,Gustavo
Bioética¿la Circe de la Medicina?
description Background: Recent development in the biomedical fields have led to considerable moral perplexity, about the rights and duties of health professionals, patients and research subjects. Since about 1970 bioethics have become involved in an ongoing discussion of the complex ethical issues raised by these developments. Objective: To review the precise relationship between Nietzsche’s ontology and an eventual bioethics. Method: The author intends to give a picture of how ontological factors have influenced the beginnings of bioethics. Results: Ethics for Nietzsche symbolizes Circe, the enchantress in Homer’s Odyssey. Nietzsche’s task is to proclaim the emptiness (devaluation) of all traditional values, thus soliciting a rejection of them. But bioethics must not be content with merely replacing the old values by new ones. v.g. by filling the place left by the supreme values. Conclusions: Despite the efforts to overcome technicity, bioethics remains locked in the subject-ism of which technicity is but a consequence. Nietzsche’s special insight is to perceive that the interpretation of beings currenthy prevalent is valueless, for it is an interpretation that has returned to values that are precisely without an value at all (Rev Méd Chile 2001; 129: 209-17).
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title Bioética¿la Circe de la Medicina?
title_short Bioética¿la Circe de la Medicina?
title_full Bioética¿la Circe de la Medicina?
title_fullStr Bioética¿la Circe de la Medicina?
title_full_unstemmed Bioética¿la Circe de la Medicina?
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publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
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