title: [Bioethics and andrology].
abstract: In the present article the Author examines the relationship between Andrology and Bioethics. He takes into consideration the historical context in which the two new disciplines were born. They are practically coeval, being both come to the light about at the 60th years of XXth Century. He analyses the clinical problems of the sexuality and some diagnostic and therapeutic potentialities of the Andrology in connection with the implications of moral order. After synthetically outlining the most diffuse Bioethics' theories, and later outlining a scheme of methodological approach, he reaches the conclusions inclining for a personalist vision of the moral problems and he is wishing a theoretical and practical attitude by Andrology specialist doctor in conformity with virtues' ethics.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Emergenza e Accettazione, Area di Medicina Interna, Università degli Studi di Roma, "La Sapienza", I.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soldini
mesh_terms: D033441:Andrology / Q000266:history*; D001675:Bioethics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century