title: [Nursing care as an ethical problem: concepts and principles applied to the act of caring].
abstract: In this paper the authors study the nature of the act of care, emphasize the importance of ethics in the professions related to the health of people and develop, in the light of the central tradition of Western moral philosophy, a set of principles that should guide nursing activity.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miranda
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Sebastián
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Contreras
mesh_terms: D004645:Empathy / Q000941:ethics*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing