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A filosofia de Platão e o debate bioético sobre o fim da vida: interseções no campo da Saúde Pública

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: This article discusses bioethical aspects of medical futility, focusing on some of its intersections in public health. Starting from a demarcation of finitude in the core of the philosophical and bioethical debate on the end of life, we confront the contemporary criticism regarding medical futility with the ideas of Plato (427-347 B.C.), a philosopher who proposed significant considerations on numerous features of the medicine of his time. We thus explore novel theoretic references to guide the disputes related to this essential problem, the implications of which are decisive to health and life.

Source: Cadernos de Saúde Pública

DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2004000300023

Authors: Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista, Fermin Roland Schramm

Institutions: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde

Language: Portuguese

Topic: Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1994752324

FWCI: 1.593

Cites: 18

Cited by: 22

Related to: 10