Approach to the history of bioethics in the professional education of podiatry in Spain

Abstract

Bioethics is an expanding area that contributes to the rethinking that occurred in different fields such as biology, medicine, podiatry and the environment, among others The complexity of the current paradigm in the context of ethical matters, where different questions related to values, principles, norms, attitudes, rights and duties, lead to dilemmas regarding which assumption is convenient to adopt in every action. Ethical decisions are oriented from an anthropocentric and positive perspective to support the beliefs, attitudes and values of the human race, where the mind has superiority over biological structures and processes, as well as intelligence over morality. From another perspective, which we could understand as negative, the one that raises distrust and disbelief toward a group of people that contributes to scientific advancement, in order to facilitate oppression and authoritarianism. Hence, bioethics is responsible for generating synergies between Bio and Ethos fields contributing to the decision-making against the dilemmas posed by science and technology involved in matters affecting people in various spheres.