Bioethics and basic care: for an extended clinic, an amplified Bioethics

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200933.2.9

Abstract

The peculiarities of Basic Care require that clinical practice and moral equating in this level of assistance be redirected in
order to extend them and change their focus from the hospital setting and the specialization that imposes on the health system and
professional training. In order to go further into reflections of the interface between Bioethics and Basic Care, this article argues that
the extended clinic appropriate for this level of health assistance requires an amplification of clinical Bioethics, with dialectical and
hermeneutical integration of rights and responsibilities by means of an ethics of caring.