Consolidation and foresight of bioethics within the government environment in Mexico

Abstract

The institutional infrastructure of Bioethics in Mexico which is considered a global and innovative benchmark regarding the impulse to this subject matter and to the link with institutions in the medical, academic, and research sectors, and with civil groups in society. This infrastructure that is represented in the federal area by the National Commission on Bioethics; in the federative entities by the State Bioethics Commissions, and locally, by the medical health care and research establishments within the Hospital Committees on Bioethics, and by the Committees on Research Ethics. By virtue of the State Commissions on Bioethics represent one of the strategic elements of such infrastructure, this work offers an approach to the facts, which motivated their origin, and the process for their consolidation. The foregone by facing the challenges that their creation represents the link activities implementedby the entrenchment of Bioethics in the union states, as well as the foresight actions that should be taken into account in order to favor their operation.