Bioethics of public health

Abstract

Bioethics is called to perform a comprehensive exercise, which allows it to identify elements of health around the dynamics of medical practice and public health. It is also important to position oneself from the theoretical, conceptual and empirical understanding of the human right to health, without losing sight of the fact that its starting point is social realities. It must take into account that in the meantime the field of policy moves forward into health, within the particular sphere framework (clinical-medical) or collective (public - community health).

From the concept of public - community health, we aim to place health at the center of social justice, without neglecting the context and its dynamics of implementation of bioethical systems, tackled from an analysis of the international context, Latin American until we reach the national sphere. It is necessary to include in this understanding specific aspects of the diversity, difference, multiculturality, socioeconomic and political conditions of health care in the context of the dizzying advance of science and technology of our society; which are also intertwined with conscience and moral action characteristic of a society that is in crisis due to the emergence of neo-conservatives and ethical relativisms that affect a hermeneutic of bioethical phenomenology.