MEDICAL ETHICS AND THE REALISTIC NOTION OF THE HUMAN PERSON: THE TERMINAL PATIENT IN THE BRAZILIAN CODE OF MEDICAL ETHICS
The aim of this article is to analyze the notion of the human person in the current Brazilian Code of Medical Ethics (2018), from the perspective of epistemological and bioethical problematization of paradigm shifts in codified medical ethics. In analyzing the new Code, we propose to conceive a personalist reading (in an ontological sense) of Human Rights (Chapter IV of the Code of Medical Ethics). With this, we emphasize the objective recognition of the dignity of the human person (in particular with regard to the terminal patient), which is the basis of an adequate justification of the benign-humanitarian paradigm.
MEDICAL ETHICS AND THE REALISTIC NOTION OF THE HUMAN PERSON: THE TERMINAL PATIENT IN THE BRAZILIAN CODE OF MEDICAL ETHICS
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1593472329061
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Palavras-chave: Medical Ethics, Bioethics, History of Medicine, Epistemology, Person.
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Keywords: Medical Ethics, Bioethics, History of Medicine, Epistemology, Person.
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Abstract:
The aim of this article is to analyze the notion of the human person in the current Brazilian Code of Medical Ethics (2018), from the perspective of epistemological and bioethical problematization of paradigm shifts in codified medical ethics. In analyzing the new Code, we propose to conceive a personalist reading (in an ontological sense) of Human Rights (Chapter IV of the Code of Medical Ethics). With this, we emphasize the objective recognition of the dignity of the human person (in particular with regard to the terminal patient), which is the basis of an adequate justification of the benign-humanitarian paradigm.
- LUÍS CARLOS SILVA DE SOUSA
