De la moral médica a la bioética clínica

Clinical bioethics appears earlier in the ’60s. Although its roots in traditional medical ethics it draws particular boost from new look that takes on modern medicine, as well as a new social setting, religious and cultural in the second half of the Twentieth Century has emerged in almost all Western countries. The journal Medicina e Morale has been particularly fruitful in preparing the ground for the birth of clinical bioethics at our University and our country too, and to support development in the early stages of its activities, offering suggestions for further growth to which the discipline in the next future will have to move. Several publications cited in the article are in part related to the clinical ethics consultation held at our University Hospital “A. Gemelli” and preliminary data of nearly two decades of expertise are presented.