Ética em neonatologia e pediatria

Abstract

The concept of bioethics emerged in the second half of the 20th century, a period marked by social mobilizations related to the feeling of justice and equality in search of guaranteeing personal rights. Biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter was responsible for introducing the term bioethics into the English language and defined it as the field of study that uses knowledge to promote the quality of life and death of biological beings and which has biological knowledge and human values ​​as its pillars. (CONTI; SOUZA, 2021). In the field of medical practice, there are three fundamental points of ethical insertion: the doctor-patient relationship, the relationship between doctors and each other and the relationship with society (MONTE, 2002). Monte (2002) highlights the sovereignty of patients' interests in relation to the doctor's, with their understanding and consent in relation to medical acts being important for the practice of medicine.