Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista

Nutrition-related problems are common in advanced cancer but are not always properly identified and treated. Food is highly symbolic, establishing a strong connection to life and well-being. The inability to eat and drink is associated with disease progression and death. Nutritional care is the most effective way to address these issues through responsible, conscientious, and compassionate support. In both the ethics of care and palliative care, the relationship and commitment to vulnerable individuals are integral to daily health practices. Through the lens of the ethics of care, we argue that nutritional care provided by dietitians is crucial in palliative care to address nutrition-related issues, resolve moral conflicts and dilemmas, and prevent an increase in vulnerabilities and violations of the rights of patients and families.

Este texto é um comentário ao livro Natural, racional, social: razão médica e racionalidade científica moderna, de Madel T. Luz. Sua crítica à racionalidade e à metodologia científica baseia-se no reconhecimento de um quê ideológico nessas dimensões, delineado principalmente a partir da Revolução Industrial. As reflexões da autora buscam respostas para explicar a marginalização de outros modos de lidar com a realidade (com destaque para o vitalismo, cuja presença é marcante na homeopatia), que foram e ainda são atacados pelo modelo hegemônico instituído pela ciência moderna. Ressalta-se que a estética desempenha um papel importante na produção e disseminação do conhecimento, como base capaz de ampliar a visão para diferentes perspectivas de racionalidade e de elaboração ética.

The manufacture of humanoid robots with embedded artificial intelligence and for sexual purposes has generated some debates within bioethics, in which diverse competing views have been presented. Themes such as sexuality and its deviations, the objectification of women, the relational problems of contemporary life, loneliness, and even the reproductive future of the species constitute the arguments which have emerged in relation to this subject. Based on these themes, this article presents the current state of the use of female sex robots, the bioethical problems that arise, and how bioethics could serve as a medium for both thinking about and resolving some of these challenges.

This is a qualitative and quantitative empirical study seeking to identify and critically describe bioethical issues in primary health care from the perspective of members of Family Health Strategy (ESF) teams in a city in the mountainous region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It also sought to detect the degree of theoretical approximation of professionals regarding the basics of ethics and bioethics, based on principalist theory. A semi-structured questionnaire was adopted as data collection instrument. The responses were categorized into aspects related to (i) ethical/bioethical conflicts in relation to staff and users; (ii) ethical/bioethical conflicts in the process of work and coexistence among team members; and (iii) misconceptions regarding the concepts of basic (bio)ethics and deontology. Although apparently less obvious, such matters concerning the scope of primary health care compromise the work process and the promotion of comprehensive care for users of the SUS.