Resumen

FRAILE DUVICQ, CARMEN GLORIA. SCIENCE, ETHICS and NURSING. Cienc. enferm. [online]. 2002, vol.8, n.1, pp. 09-14. ISSN 0717-9553.  doi: 10.4067/S0717-95532002000100002.

The ethical aspect of a research work not only depends on the fulfillment of some rules or ethical principles such as to respect the autonomy of the person or the deontological strictness of the methodology used, but also of other important aspects that must be located in a wider context; like answering the real needs of the population, that the benefits obtained may reach the highest number of people, and that the relation "cost and benefit" really exists, among others

Palabras clave : Ethics; Bioethics; Research.