Abstract

BAUTISTA ESPINEL, Gloria Omaira. Bioethical tensions and principles applicable to the medical mission: are there limits in the fulfillment of duty?. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.1, pp.136-154. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.2987.

The present article of reflection aims to identify the bioethical principles applicable to the tensions faced by the Medical Mission in areas of armed conflict, in addition to the limitations that exist to achieve the fulfillment of the duty. It starts from the concepts related to the various categories of principles and the currents that originate them, and it goes through the problems that the Medical Mission faces and its relation to the principles, which are exercised within the framework of values as protection of the life, human dignity, neutrality, and vulnerability. This raises the need to reflect on the tensions of bioethical order, which could be mediated by the weighting of opposing principles, a challenge that transcends clinical bioethics and that has to do with interaction spaces, involving decisions; which are not based on the dilemma, but on the tension that confrontation exerts. In the present text, it is argued that bioethical tensions and bioethical principles constitute two ways, on the one hand, to understand and on the other, to explain how they influence the phenomena of armed confrontation, in the interventions they give in care scenarios in healthcare.

Keywords : Armed conflict; bioethics; peacebuilding; health services; culture of peace.

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