Bioethics and its theoretical paradigms

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of the history and theoretical models of bioethics by an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses different areas of knowledge, especially history and philosophy. First, the study characterizes the historical background on the emergence of bioethics, the terminological issues that arose in this period, and the framing of bioethics as a discipline or field of discourse. Subsequently, the text presents the main theoretical paradigms of bioethics and critically analyzes them.