title: [Bioethics in Latin America: legal perspective].
abstract: The jurist's work is to detect the legal guiding principles, analize them and to anticipate what kind of acceptance they will have. The legislator must be prudent if the subject studied is changeable as it happens with the norms applied in Bioethics. This detection process is more delicate if the guiding principles that have to be detected are valid for such an extensive region, as it is Latin America, where the legislation of the different countries that form it would adopt them. The two problems that will be studied here are: a) if it is advisable or not to raise some Bioethic basic principles to the constitutional level. b) which are the main principles that have been adopted by the juridical legislations of Latin America and who, in some way, guide the legal regulation.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Chile.
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Figueroa Yáñez
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards*; D003219:Confidentiality; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007843:Latin America