Bioethics and health psychology: reflecting upon life and death questions / A Bioética e a psicologia da saúde: reflexões sobre questões de vida e morte

The present work focus on factors that contributed to the emerging field of Bioethic. Among, those, we point out: a) technological and scientific revolution; b) social revolution of the 60's. It describes the historical development of Bioethic, from its former definition as a science of human s...

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Main Author: Wilma da Costa Torres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2003-01-01
Series:Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79722003000300006&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt