La bioética como contrapeso a la biopolítica

Abstract

In 1970, Potter began to think about the need for a new knowledge which could answer the new problems caused by exponential techno-scientific progress, particularly in health sciences. Over the course of four decades of an intense bioethics reflection from different orientations, it now appears necessary to complement the current bioethics knowledge with other ways of thinking and with thinkers that allow us to complete a new broad body of bioethics knowledge that could solve the complex problems about life in a multicultural and globalised world. Thus, thinking about this latter political question, biopolitics also seems to be a necessary knowledge to now incorporate into bioethics. This brief paper is about the relationships between bioethics and biopolitics, with the final practical aim to improve our patient daily health care.