Resumen

LOLAS STEPKE, Fernando. Global bioethics and the environment. Estud. int. (Santiago, en línea) [online]. 2016, vol.48, n.185, pp.21-30. ISSN 0719-3769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2016.44517.

On referring briefly to changes in human relationships over the last fifty years, which have been termed globalization, the essay mentions its positive and negative aspects and contends that economic and industrial development has caused deep changes in the environment. It emphasizes that globalization has ethical implications among other reasons because it affects individuals. The paper then turns to the term bioethics and its overall bases, which respond to regulatory, supervisory, deliberative and interaction imperatives. Finally, it is noted that guiding principles of the dominant form of bioethics are not wholly applicable to its formulation as global bioethics.

Palabras clave : civilization; globalization; environment; ethics; bioethics.

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