title: [Clinical bioethics: how to practice?].
abstract: To think about ethics means to go into the Bioethics universe. If it is understood that medical ethics deals with doctors within an organized society under legal purposes, consensus and ethics in the exercise of medicine it is observed that Bioethics came up due to the need to debate and decide on the ethic questions related mainly to research and scientific advances as well as conquests concerning human rights and social-cultural development: it is the critical expression of our interest in conveniently using the development of medical art and science. Within Medicine, clinical Bioethics arouse as a possibility of thinking and discussing the practice of medicine in the different social institutions which deal with health and with professionals in health area.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Legal, Ética Médica, Medicina Social e do Trabalho, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: Reinaldo Ayer
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: Isac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jorge Filho
mesh_terms: D026690:Ethics, Clinical