Mexican Bioethics Review ICSA

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Editorial Committee

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Editorial

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Types of liability in the exercise of the medical act

Itzel Pacheco Navia — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600

In Mexico, being health personnel and practicing the medical act entails the obligation to care for people seeking to protect their health, whether by preventive, curative, or palliative care actions, taking into account that the supreme purpose of the medical act is to preserve human life—the possible results of malpractice generated by acting with negligence, imperfection, and imprudence. The consequences range from a reparation of the damage in civil matters, a corresponding sanction in jurisdictional aspects, and the imposition of penalties in criminal liability. Identifying the type of obligations that health personnel must assume to determine malpractice is relevant. Medicine, being a professional with technical preparation, has rules for its practice that, following the state of knowledge of this science, set the guidelines within which health personnel must perform, and this is what is known as the lex artis

Ethical challenges in the era of bacterial resistance: the threat of indiscriminate use of antibiotics

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The overuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, posing an ethical and public health challenge. Bacterial resistance has become a real threat to the health of populations. It renders treatments for infectious diseases ineffective, increasing the risk of complications during medical interventions and raising the risk of exposure of the population to potentially fatal infections. It is worth mentioning that bacterial resistance is entirely preventable, so it is everyone's responsibility to make conscious use of antibiotics.

This article reviews the basic concepts of bacterial resistance and then makes a bioethical reflection on the prescription and use of antibiotics.

A non-systematic bibliographic review was carried out in databases such as Pubmed, Google Scholar, and Scopus to identify basic concepts of bacterial resistance. In addition, a database review of bioethics articles was carried out to create a bioethical reflection on the prescription and correct use of antibiotics.

The abuse of antibiotics and the resulting bacteria resistant to antibiotics poses an ethical dilemma involving both the medical community and the entire society.

Bioethics in the care of older people

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Aging is inevitable, we will all reach this stage of life, so the population that is already in it must be treated with the respect it deserves and thus be able to enjoy a quality of life. For this all professionals in the health we must consider bioethical principles to ensure dignified care. The most frequent ethical problems that the elderly person or their relatives may present are forcing the elderly person to remain isolated, administering new drugs without sufficient justifying studies, being negligent in their care, abusing their state of mental incapacity, generating marginalization, abuse , discrimination and abandonment, so this article seeks to raise awareness about the main concepts of bioethics and how to apply them in the care and well-being of the elderly.

Black Tourism and the Impact on Society with a Focus on Isla de las Muñecas

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This article analyzes the factors or motivations factors or motivations that influence tourists to visit certain destinations, which are nowadays destinations, which are currently catalogued as Black Tourism, as well as the impact that this has generated in the impact that this has generated in the society, taking as object of study the Isla de las Muñecas the Isla de las Muñecas in Xochimilco, Mexico City. The qualitative research paradigm qualitative research paradigm is used for the development of the study, with a non-experimental non-experimental, cross-sectional research design, using the qualitative methods of a case study.qualitative methods of a situational case study and phenomenology, applying open, flexible and unstructured interviews with 15 tourists who visit the place. The main results obtained show that the practice of this type of tourism can be considered cultural and educational because tourists are passionate about or interested in learning about the history of the place and the people who lived or were in those destinations.

The Inter-American Convention for the Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons and its relationship with Bioethics

Alejandro Pacheco Gómez — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The interruption of pregnancy is a topic of great controversy in various areas. In Mexico, most criminal legislation defines abortion as the death of the product of conception at any time during pregnancy. With the evolution in the recognition and defense of human rights, it has currently been considered that the prohibition of abortion affects the exercise of reproductive freedom and access to health services, since it forces women to a procreation and are prevented from accessing safe abortion. Thus, approximately a third of local laws have modified the crime of abortion to define it as the interruption of pregnancy after the twelfth week of gestation; With this, a trend has begun towards not prohibiting this procedure during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. However, it is not without ethical and legal implications, since health personnel may also object to participating for reasons of conscientious objection.