Translation of: Bioética.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Moral thinking on bioethics -- Principles and general moral criteria -- Medical codes of ethics -- The Techniques of assisted reproduction -- Population and birth control -- Genetic counseling -- Antenatal diagnosis -- Eugenics -- Abortion -- Use and donation of embryos and fetuses -- Handicapped newborns -- Genetics engineering -- Mapping and sequencing of the human genome -- Death -- Hunger strikes -- The Elderly and the chronically sick -- Patient's rights -- The truth -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Informed consent -- The Right to turn down treatment -- Professional responsibility -- Strikes in the health sector -- Ethics committees -- Health and disease -- Transplants -- AIDS -- Drugs -- Medical interventions in mental illness and behavioral problems -- Research using human beings -- Interventions on animals.