BIOETHICS, PRESENT AT THE VIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE UNESCO REDBIOETHICS

Professors and researchers from the faculty addressed topics such as clinical bioethics, global bioethics, and human rights.

The VIII International Congress of the UNESCO Bioethics Network "Bioethics and Human Rights" was held, in which our Professor Patricia Hernández, Dr. Victoria Hernández and Dr. María Elizabeth de los Ríos participated as speakers in different panels, all professors and researchers from the faculty of bioethics, who addressing topics such as clinical bioethics, global bioethics and human rights.

Dr. De los Ríos participated in the panel on clinical bioethics with the topic "scope of decision-making capacity in adult patients" in which she presented the elements to determine the capacity of patients and how this constitutes a guarantor for exercise the principle of autonomy in bioethics. Likewise, she presented a scale model for measuring the ability to make decisions in the Mexican context based on the international measurement scales Mc Arthur competency assessment tool and Hopkins’s competence assessment tool.

For her part, Dr. Fernández joined the panel "Bioethics and Human Rights" with the presentation "Bioethics and human rights, towards an interdisciplinary applicable to solving global problems". In this space, she pointed out that communication is proposed a methodology where coordination and cooperation between the principles of law and the principles of Bioethics are structured, in such a way that they can be adapted to resolve conflicts of Global Bioethics. Within this cooperation, two tests are proposed: the weighting test and the reasonableness test as an appropriate way to resolve and argue conflicts and dilemmas in Global Bioethics, where integrity and safeguarding human dignity are the main axis.

Finally, Professor Hernández presented in the panel "Bioethics and diversities" the "Bioethical Reflections on Sexual Rights in People with Disabilities". In it, she presented the situation of disability that affects the person in their biological, psychological, social, and spiritual spheres since the experience is different for everyone, she also addressed the aspect related to sexual rights that is often ignored by the health professionals ".

The event, held simultaneously in several Latin American countries, had the participation of great speakers in the field of Bioethics and had the purpose of reflecting on the respect and promotion of human rights from the perspective of Bioethics in the face of new challenges that imply the great economic and social inequalities for the region.