The teaching of bioethics in medical school

The extraordinary technological development that occurred in the last fifty years, in which Medicine has evolved more than in the previous fifty centuries, has given rise to several questions of an ethical nature. Since the second half of the last century, there has been a growing perception that do...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Lopes Filho, Gaspar de Jesus
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:Brasil
Institution:Hospital de Clínicas de Itajubá
Repository:Revista Ciências em Saúde
Language:Portuguese
English
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.portalrcs.hcitajuba.org.br:article/1109
Online Access:https://portalrcs.hcitajuba.org.br/index.php/rcsfmit_zero/article/view/1109
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:undergraduate medical education
bioethics
educação de graduação em medicina
bioética
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Summary:The extraordinary technological development that occurred in the last fifty years, in which Medicine has evolved more than in the previous fifty centuries, has given rise to several questions of an ethical nature. Since the second half of the last century, there has been a growing perception that doctors are increasingly distant from their patients, prioritizing, at most, the technical aspect of the profession. Bioethics emerged to help humanity to act in a balanced way in the face of environmental and behavioral changes arising from technological evolution.