Bioethics in Latin America: guaranteeing human life by recognizing its original origin and unavoidable sustainability.

Abstract

Justification: The unstoppable pollution and use of fossil resources has unleashed innumerable effects on nature, the population, the economy. Generates migration, poverty and vulnerability in less protected populations such as those of Latin America. A century after the declarations of scholars from various disciplines about the scope of action of Bioethics, their dissertations lead to the recognition that nature and living beings are related and if their environment it altered, survival is at risk. Objective: to present a reflection on the importance of natural resources in Latin America and their relationship with Bioethics. Methodology: A search was carried out for free access publications in Google Scholar, using the terms bioethics, climate change, poverty, vulnerability, human rights, sustainable development, Latin America. Results: 37 articles between 1970 and 2020 were selected, they were grouped into three areas of interest: Those that focus on the history of Bioethics, those that contained reflections on the role of the environment in the reproduction of life, wellbeing, the right of people to this and those who, taking into consideration the scope of Bioethics. They call for individual responsibility towards natural resources and their relationship with the Latin American reality in the face of climate change. Conclusion: The bioethical vision must be broadened from the research approach and its passage from the medical, to the indivisible relationship between living beings and nature, human rights, to a healthy life and the counting of the challenges that the population lives / faces on a daily basis in Latin America in the face of environmental alterations.