Medicina y Ética

A new year begins with renewed challenges that call for a reaffirmation, from within academia, of the ontological dignity of the human person and an uncompromising respect for life, amidst the resistance posed by reductive technological models and contemporary ideologies. In the face of mounting social tensions and rapid processes of cultural and societal transformation, this issue of Medicina y Ética adopts a clear stance: the inescapable ethical obligation to recognize and uphold human dignity as the foundational principle of all scientific and healthcare practice.

The journal brings together philosophical, medical, scientific, social, and anthropological contributions that converge toward a shared purpose: to reclaim humanism as the non-negotiable core of both scientific inquiry and clinical praxis. Grounded in the personalist approach to bioethics, the articles address institutional challenges, the limits and risks underlying transhumanist promises, compassionate care for patients with disorders of consciousness, community-based ethics in everyday healthcare practice, the classical medical virtues expressed through decoro and care with decorum, the demand for epistemic justice through the responsible inclusion of women in clinical trials, and a renewed appreciation of ethical realism grounded in the ontological truth of the person.

Taken as a whole, the works in this issue highlight bioethics as a vital inter-discipline, essential for confronting the dehumanization of science, re-examining the good that precedes freedom, and restoring the deepest meaning of the medical act.