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Principales dilemas bioéticos en las personas con discapacidad prolongada

Authors

  • Laura Rueda C. Escuela de Terapia Ocupacional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile
  • Orquídea Miranda Z. Escuela de Terapia Ocupacional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

Recognized it is at world level the difficulty to reach the full participation and people's social integration with handicap, situation that involves fundamental ethical values. An important contribution will be the application of bioethics principles direction of the professional chore under a new paradigm. Bioethics dilemmas like the informed consent and the person's participation in the taking of decisions that affect their own life, imply for the professional a challenge, the delivery of appropriate and opportune information, the development of professional behaviors that the autonomy and the recognition of these people like valid speakers favor. When speaking of sexuality, the professionals should allow the integral development of people, recognizing the sexuality like the human being's fundamental aspect, and in front of which you/they are entitled to be guided and educated taking like base their biographical history and what each one wants of the life (self-determination). They should be considered therefore, bioethics principIes fundamental as the Justice and the Autonomy.

Author Biographies

Laura Rueda C., Escuela de Terapia Ocupacional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile

Terapeuta Ocupacional, Licenciada en Filosofía, Licenciada en Ciencia de la Ocupación. Magíster en Bioética.

 

 

Orquídea Miranda Z., Escuela de Terapia Ocupacional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile

Terapeuta Ocupacional.  Licenciada en Ciencia de la Ocupación. Master en Integración de personas con Discapacidad.