Álvarez-Díaz JA

Language: Spanish
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Page: 311-319
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ABSTRACT

Bioethical issues have been seldom related to the field of Pathology. This article begins with some epistemological reflections about Medicine regarding clinical activities and those ones specific to Pathology. Every ethical problem refers always to a specific case, and then it is proposed that Ethics has special tints to those problems faced in Pathologic Anatomy. Thinking about physician work, the article proposes specific problems faced by specialists in pathologic anatomy: their relation with patients/users, with other pathologists, and other health care professionals. There is a reflection regarding the pathologist as agent of change and ethical problems facing this, within the own specialty and inside the social structure. Because of this, the work ends with a brief epilogue on Virchow’s figure and his legacy for the Pathologic Anatomy and for the Social Medicine.