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The Development of Bioethics in Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

Jorge Hernández-Arriaga ,
Victoria Navarrete de Olivares  and
Kenneth V. Iserson
Jorge Hernández-Arriaga
Affiliation:
Center for Bioethics Investigations (Centro de Investigaciones en Bioética) at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico
Victoria Navarrete de Olivares
Affiliation:
Center for Bioethics Investigations (Centro de Investigaciones en Bioética) at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico
Kenneth V. Iserson
Affiliation:
Arizona Bioethics Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Abstract

As in other countries, medical ethics in Mexico has rescued the world of philosophical ethics from oblivion. The needs of clinical medicine gave birth to Mexican bioethics. After the growth of scientific and technologic subjects in medical schools, the humanities, such as medical history, deontology, and medical philosophy, were replaced by such core subjects as radiology, pharmacology, and microbiology. Since the 1950s, graduates from Mexican medical schools have not been exposed to any courses in the medical humanities.

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NETWORKING NEWS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 382 - 385
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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