title: Religion and health: the public intervention of Catholic religious agents trained in bioethics in the parliamentary debate on death with dignity in Argentina.
abstract: This paper discusses from a sociological perspective one of Catholicism's fronts of public intervention in the development and enactment of health legislation. In particular we analyze the debate in parliamentary committees on the so-called "death with dignity" law (No. 26742), for which a group of bioethics experts was convened to counsel senators regarding the scope and limits of the law. The majority of the invited experts advocated a personalist bioethics perspective, which is a theological bioethics development of contemporary Catholicism. In the debate no representatives of other faiths were present, reinforcing the widely studied overlap between Catholicism and politics in Argentina.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales, Concejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Irrazábal
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D001675:Bioethics; D002410:Catholicism; D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012297:Right to Die / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D028725:Theology
keywords: Religion; Catholicism; Health Legislation; Right to Die; Bioethics; Argentina