Abstract

ALCANTARA ZAPATA, Diana E.  and  MAZZEI PIMENTAL, Marinella. Bioethics and environmental justice in the health of the Andean residents of Peru. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.1, pp.36-50. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.3106.

This article attempts to capture the bioethical-environmental panorama of the health in the residents who live on the Peruvian highlands, highlighting the inequity in access to health services that exist in this region and reflecting on the possible historical and current contextual causes that have originated differences between Inca-Andean settler and modern-Andean settler. The change in the view of the world about the environment and natural resources, the decline of justice approach, loss of solidarity, welfare, and respect to human being and nature. Besides, we describe health from a historical scenario of this region, where Public health has and will have as a challenge the application of programs that respond to the specific needs of this population, with a focus on the environment.

Keywords : Bioethics; environmental justice; health; Andean people; Inca medicine.

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