LLANOS ZULOAGA, Roberto (Peruvian Associacion of Bioethics): HONORIO DELGADO AND BIOETHICS IN PERU

In Peru bioethics has not yet acquired its own identity. There is a Committee of Ethics in both the Peruvian Medical College and the National Comission against AIDS. Euthanasia is illegal. Transplantations of organs has not few obstacles. Many handi-capped children are discriminated because of the possibility of ®contagion¯. State hospitals are obligated to accept patients with AIDS but not ever it is the case.

SANZ ELGUERA, Julio (Univ. San Marcos): BIOETHICS AND GENETICS

Discovery of gens of homosexuality might give us the idea that other kind of behaviour, like altruism and the incest taboo be determinated as well. A first result in ethics would be to separate such kind of behaviour from morals because, according to Kant, duty implies power. However an examination of genetic conditions shows different results. For instance, only exceptionally the fenotype is determinated unilaterallyby gens. Environmental variations always play and important role, so one might presu-possed that in the determination of behaviour a more complex environment like the social one could be even more important. That is the trouble of the determination of conduct by environment.

PAZ Y MINO CONDE, M.A.(Univ. San Marcos): BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Cloning, cyborgs, crionics and ... (Recreating life)

In a general way it deals with some advances in biotechnology and their present and future influence in society's laws and moral.

CASAS N. Raymundo (Univ. San Marcos): THE PROBLEM OF ABORTION

Author considers that society does not realize of the real problem of abortion. In order to defend that position he uses a jerarchy of moral duties and that he will apply to solve concrete problems on abortion. His argumentation grounds on the retoric principle of absurd-reduction.

MENDIVIL Z., Rolando (Univ. San Marcos): ETHICS IN TRANSPLANTATION OF ORGANS, About the donor

Incessant evolution of the biological sciences has originated unusual situations where persons situate in a grand variety of occupations must get decisions that have great relation with the morality.The theme of the transplantation of organs it is not out of the moral criticism and we shall expose it particularly in relation to donor.

POLO SANTILLAN, Miguel A. (Univ. San Marcos): ETHICAL EDUCATION OF THE HEALTH PROFESIONALS

It is a reflexion on the moral education of the Medical Sciences students analizing its different components: development of the course, participation of the teachers and students, etc. It is sugested to prepare to the future Health professionals not only in rules and beginnings but awaking a reflexive and attent mentality that have in account a global vision and a concret action towards to the problems of the professional career.

SALINAS M., Oscar (Univ. San Marcos): CONCEPTIONS OF HUMAN BEING & ITS INFLUENCE IN THE HEALTH POLITICS

This paper will try to prove the existent relations between a determinated notion of human individual and the main remarks of a determinated health politics. Beginning of four notions of man -Christian, biological, structralist, funcionalist and Marxist- we can get the socio-political sense of them in the context of the health politics.

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