Author:

• Jose Roque Junges - Junges, J.R. - São Leopoldo, RS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) - <roquejunges@hotmail.com>

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Abstract:

It is a theoretical discussion about the epistemological statute of bioethics focused on its convergences with public health, both linked as scientific areas that came from the context of the second epistemological rupture, which questioned the critics to the common sense made by the rupture in modern science. The new approach to the common sense in the second rupture means considering the determinants of surroundings and subjectivity in the methodology. Emerging from the second rupture, public health and bioethics include the social and subjective determinants in their analysis, with an enlarged and complex vision of human health and human actions involving environment, life and health. This requires a transdisciplinar focus in their approaches. Which is the meaning of these premises for the epistemological statute of bioethics in its convergence with public health? As an applied ethics, bioethics needs to be critical, but not aprioristic, as happens in the first rupture of moral philosophy. The criticism of bioethics needs to come from the facticity of the social determinants expressed by the health inequities . The only way to integrate criticism and facticity is hermeneutic, interpreting the significances constructed in the reality and becoming critic from them. This is the epistemological statute appropriate to bioethics in its convergence with public health.
Public Health, Bioethics, Epistemology, Complexity, Transdisciplinarity, Hermeneutic.

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