Porter J K, de la Escosura G
School of Medicine, Anáhuac University, Mexico City, Mexico.
Bull Pan Am Health Organ. 1990;24(4):536-44.
In Mexico, as in many other countries, there are numerous situations involving bioethics that are not necessarily covered by officially sanctioned policies or guidelines. In such cases, it is reasonable to describe commonly accepted rules, opinions, and practices in a general way so as to illustrate how bioethical questions are being managed. This article describes certain goals and practices relating to education in bioethics in Mexico. It then outlines Mexican laws and procedures governing research on human subjects, cites certain official rules and activities relating to regulation of human reproduction, quotes literature dealing with intervention in human procreation, discusses artificial prolongation of life, describes laws and practices governing organ transplants, considers ethical issues relating to such transplants, reviews the AIDS situation, and describes how the need for confidentiality is dealt with in managing AIDS cases and related data. In this manner it indicates how bioethical questions in these various areas are being handled and points out certain priority areas needing work.
在墨西哥，和许多其他国家一样，存在诸多涉及生物伦理的情况，而官方批准的政策或指南未必涵盖这些情况。在此类情形下，以一种概括的方式描述普遍认可的规则、观点和做法，以便说明生物伦理问题是如何得到处理的，这是合理的。本文描述了墨西哥生物伦理教育的某些目标和做法。接着概述了墨西哥关于人体研究的法律和程序，列举了与人类生殖监管相关的某些官方规定和活动，引用了有关人类生殖干预的文献，讨论了生命的人工延长，描述了器官移植的法律和做法，考虑了与此类移植相关的伦理问题，审视了艾滋病情况，并描述了在处理艾滋病病例及相关数据时如何应对保密需求。通过这种方式，它表明了这些不同领域的生物伦理问题是如何得到处理的，并指出了某些需要开展工作的优先领域。
