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0047/2017 - Bioethical Dimensions of International Cooperation in Health: still a controversial issue?
Dimensões Bioéticas da Cooperação Internacional em Saúde: ainda uma questão polêmica?

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• José Paranaguá de Santana - Santana, J.P. - Brasilia, DF - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Nethis - <jparanagua@hotmail.com>

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Abstract:

The current essay stresses the importance of critical analysis about the international cooperation in healththe reflection on diplomacy, acknowledging the limits and ethical possibilities of cooperation in that context. It emphasizes the importance of the historical perspective, highlighting the circumstances of the current international system consolidation, when, after two world armed conflicts, the victorious countries created the United Nations Organization, which today brings together all the Nations of the world, although most countries are frankly in favour of expressive changes in this institutionality. It stresses the importance of the bioethics dimension, while the principles adopted in the UN documents are systematically disregarded, especially in view of the evolution of inequalities pari passu the asymmetries of knowledge and enjoyment of innovations that segment Nations. The reflection also highlights South-South cooperation as fundamental to the analyses around the inequality and dependence which demarcate the North-South and East-West bipolarity. Are these, in short, the guiding elements for further analysis and referrals related to international cooperation in health, leaving aside catastrophic visions or idealistic illusions, in both cases formulated without regard to such assumptions.

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BioethicsPublic HealthInternational HealthInternational RelationsInternational Cooperation

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Santana, J.P.. Bioethical Dimensions of International Cooperation in Health: still a controversial issue?. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Feb). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/bioethical-dimensions-of-international-cooperation-in-health-still-a-controversial-issue/16093?id=16093&id=16093



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