title: [Bioethics and intercultural health: notes to a necessary and possible connection].
abstract: One of the current challenges of bioethics is to look at diversity in health care, and especially avoid hegemonic criteria established as normative and do not include diversity. In some situations, such policies contributed to the exclusion of the difference in what is supposedly enshrined as "normal." This includes the difficulties that are generated against health issues when approached from a cultural perspective, because the diseases are not equal and do not manifest the same way in different cultures, i.e. there are different ways of getting sick, which can be determined culturally. At the same time, bioethics is a proposal about the ethical conflicts related to life in general, so this article aims to explore how to structure the connection between an ethic of life (bioethics) and health from an intercultural perspective.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Historia y Filosofía de la Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, México. marciamocellin@gmail.com
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mocellin-Raymundo
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Viesca-Treviño
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez-Martínez
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans