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The term bioethics has been highly spread in the scientific society since its appearance in the middle of the 20th century. It is being assumed by scientists and intellectuals of different knowledge branches who have worked to clarify its heterogeneous approaches which lead the themes, proposals and concerns of different academic circles. The present paper has as objective to make an analysis of the features of the development of bioethics in Latin America, as well as the problems it is facing today, for which theoretical methods as the analysis-synthesis and inductive-deductive were used. In addition, empirical methods such as content analysis, documental bibliographic research were reviewed to get a closed approach to the principal criteria that on this topic are debated today in our context.Keywords: Bioethics, social responsibility, philosophy, ethics, scientific knowledge. |
