title: [The role of communication techniques in the dissemination of programs linked to bioethics in Brazil].
abstract: As everywhere in the world, Bioethics is still a very recent domain in Brazil. The first initiatives date from the middle 1980s and its history goes hand in hand with that of institutions which encouraged it or, as in certain cases, are in fact born from the intellectual movement created by this designation concerning this new domain of philosophical and scientific knowledge. We still do not have statistics regarding the participation of the media in disseminating Bioethics in Brazil, but, as the leader of an institution that pioneered educational programmes and initiatives linked to Bioethics that reach our whole country, one may say that we can point out that the Internet, in addition to being a communication medium, that is to say, communication by means of electronic mails, is the main media as regards access to and broadcasting of literary (philosophical and scientific) production in Bioethics today.
authors.affiliation: Université Catholique Portuguaise. cpb@saocamilo-sp.br
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: De Paul De Barchifontaine
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D009938:Organizations