[Terminology in clinical bioethics].
In this article some of the most relevant terms in clinical bioethics are defined. The terms were chosen based on three criteria: impact on the most important problems in clinical bioethics, difficulty in understanding, and need to clarify their meaning. For a better understanding, the terms were grouped into 5 areas: general concepts (conflict of values, deliberation, conflict of interest, conscientious objection); justice (justice, distributive justice, models of justice, triage); clinical matters (information, competency, capability, informed consent, mature minor, coercion, secrecy, privacy, confidentiality, professional secrecy); end of life (prior instructions, limitation of therapeutic efforts, professional obstinacy, futility, palliative care, palliative sedation, principle of double effect, euthanasia, assisted suicide, persistent vegetative state, minimally conscious state, locked-in syndrome, brain death), and beginning of life (assisted reproduction, genetic counseling, preimplantation genetic diagnosis).
Instituto de Ética Clínica Francisco Vallés, Universidad Europea, Madrid, España. benjaminherreros@gmail.com.
Benjamín
B
Herreros
Beatriz
B
Moreno-Milán
Eloy
E
Pacho-Jiménez
Diego
D
Real de Asua
Ricardo Andrés
RA
Roa-Castellanos
Emanuele
E
Valentia
D026688:Bioethical Issues; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D009626:Terminology as Topic
Bioethics; Ethicists; Terminology