Abstract
Based on two fictitious cases of disregard for the rules to prevent the spread of Sars-Cov-2 in which individuals claim that their autonomy has been disrespected, in Brazil, the authors ask to what extent individual autonomy must be strictly respected and propose a new approach to the bioethics principles, so that they are applied with a view to public health and the common good.
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Dieb Miziara Ivan, et al.
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Introduction
Ethics applied to health practices have evolved over the centuries. Many factors contributed to the creation of Bioethics as a field of knowledge, a discipline involved with the evolution of Ethics in the cultural panorama of the end of the 20th century. These factors belong to several territories, including medical practice By the middle of the last century, Medical Ethics was primarily limited to professional conduct. Codes of professional conduct established the ideal rules that governed members of the medical profession. In general, the character of these codes was, as Hippocrates ideas, eminently paternalistic It became clear that a new philosophical field within the biomedical sciences was opened: that of Bioethics. The first to use the term “bioethics” was Van Rensselear Potter It is important to say, as stated by Racine