Principles in bioethical currents

Abstract

The purpose of this research article is to explore the bioethical currents that have been addressed from Latin America, to characterize the principles that guide decisions in specific contexts, from a scenario marked by scientific advances and ethical dilemmas, exploring bioethical principles applicable to the Latin American context and environment. To achieve the research objectives, a qualitative design was followed, with an inductive method and an interpretive paradigm, applying a documentary analysis, to analyze one hundred and ten documents that are part of a previous documentary selection of the related literature. With this, the main finding was to identify twenty-three fundamental bioethical principles derived from three specific currents, adapted to the contemporary Latin American context, such as: the principlist bioethical current, the personalist current and the Latin American current. The discussion focuses on how the three bioethical currents dialogue between universal principles and local realities, facing contemporary dilemmas in specific contexts. It is concluded that the bioethical discipline must be transdisciplinary and contextual, integrating universal values with cultural, social and political particularities, since this allows us to face complex ethical dilemmas and strengthens the relationship between scientific development and human rights, guaranteeing respect for the diversity characteristic of local Latin American realities, but also global ones.