Open AccessSocial bioethics and transdisciplinary healthcare: an alternative proposal for palliative care
Author(s) -
Rodolfo Franco Puttini,
Guilherme Antônio Moreira de Barros,
Lino Lemônica
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
rbb/rbb. revista brasileira de bioética
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1984-1760
pISSN - 1808-6020
DOI - 10.26512/rbb.v5i1-4.7857
Subject(s) - bioethics , health care , palliative care , nursing , healthcare service , engineering ethics , social work , sociology , protocol (science) , medicine , political science , alternative medicine , law , engineering , pathology
This study describes the steps for the construction of a communication environment for a multiprofessional healthcare team acting in a healthcare service for incurable patients. Beginning with discussions on ethical dilemmas concerning the healthcare team’s approach to death during home care and based on a human sciences theoretical framework – particularly social anthropology – a professional protocol was drawn up where the major interlocutors are the patient, his family, and care providers. Palliative care was critically discussed from a bioethical standpoint, as a fundamental element for social bioethics.