Conflicts from bioethics in the teaching of medicine.

Abstract

Bioethics is born as the necessary response to the dizzying progress of scientific and technological advances in branches such as Genomics, Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering, among others; as well as the marked mercantilization of medicine, the gradual threat of dehumanization, the social injustice, and the unequal access to health services. As an academic discipline, it urgently demands that the curricula of the medical career providesits students with the skills that enable them to deal with ethical conflicts arising from clinical practice. The present study reflectson the bases of a teaching of medicine that privileges the conceptions of bioethics in the solution of conflicts.