CLINICAL BIOETHICS AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A MEDICINE OF VALUES AND AFFECTS

Abstract

From the relational asymmetry between physicians and patients, human moral values emerge capable of negatively impacting this interaction, making communication and decision-making difficult. In situations of vulnerability, these moral conflicts become aggravated. Deliberative methods in Bioethics emerge as an instrument in dealing with moral dilemmas. This article is a bibliographical review, whose objective is to demonstrate how medicine can be made less defensive, reducing the distances between doctor and patient, through Bioethics. It is revealed that the care of pain and human suffering is the great challenge to be worked on by the health area and, therefore, the search for a deeper look must be constant, capable of perceiving each individual in their unit, consisting of body and soul. Technological evolution increased the distances between human beings and, with that, Principialist Bioethics needed to evolve. Although bioethical deliberations are not the definitive solutions to moral dilemmas, they can pave the way for a more humane and more affectionate medicine.