A SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDY: BRAZIL

This paper discusses the question of social justice in a global world, focussing on Brazil. Though largely debated, this question has not yet been properly answered (Kelsen, 2001, p. 1). Trying to contribute to this debate, this paper raises a general thesis: social justice involves a chaotic-solidaristic integration (da Silveira, 2002) between the discourse towards the egalitarian rights and duties and its practical sustainability by ethics and democracy.

Analysis of the ethical aspects of professional confidentiality in dental practice

From the point of view of deontological ethics, privacy is a moral right that patients are entitled to and it is bound to professional confidentiality. Otherwise, the information given by patients to health professionals would not be reliable and a trustable relationship could not be established. The aim of the present study was to assess, by means of questionnaires with open and closed questions, the awareness and attitudes of 100 dentists working in the city of Andradina, São Paulo State, Brazil, with respect to professional confidentiality in dental practice. Most dentists (91.43%) reported to have instructed their assistants on professional confidentiality. However, 44.29% of the interviewees showed to act contradictorily as reported talking about the clinical cases of their patients to their friends or spouses. The great majority of professionals (98.57%) believed that it is important to have classes on Ethics and Bioethics during graduation and, when asked about their knowledge of the penalties imposed for breach of professional confidentiality, only 48.57% of them declared to be aware of it. Only 28.57% of the interviewees affirmed to have exclusive access to the files; 67.14% reported that that files were also accessed by their secretary; 1.43% answered that their spouses also had access, and 2.86% did not answer. From the results of the present survey, it could be observed that, although dentists affirmed to be aware of professional confidentiality, their attitudes did not adhere to ethical and legal requirements. This stand of health professionals has contributed to violate professional ethics and the law itself, bringing problems both to the professional and to the patient.

Bioética-sociobiologia. Neologismos oportunos? Interface da tecnociência com as ciências humanas e sociais

The article focuses on the creation of the neologisms Bioethics and Sociobiology, analyzing these two words which due to their composition evoke relations between biological sciences and human studies (ethics and sociology). Highlights that these two neologisms, in fact, were born already loaded by deep meanings, but in different senses. Emphasizes the importance of bioethics in the integration of scientific and humanistic cultures, beyond university statuary regulations. Concludes that Bioethics conveys also a suggestive message about how to create mechanisms and conditions for facing the challenges which scientific advancements, in their inexorability, present.

A estética do BijaRi: em busca da permanência

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

O comitê gestor da internet no Brasil: gestão, segurança e comunicação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

As responsabilidades decorrentes do desvio de poder na Administração Pública

Pós-graduação em Direito - FCHS

A ética e o ensino infantil: o desenvolvimento moral na pré-escola

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Condutas de discriminação entre crianças da educação infantil

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

O papel da bioética na formação do médico

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Reconhecimento ético em Hegel à luz do conceito de família

Pós-graduação em Filosofia - FFC

A prosa de Chico Buarque em Fazenda modelo

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Jogos e ética na perspectiva da educação física escolar

Pós-graduação em Ciências da Motricidade - IBRC

Ética e literatura: uma reflexão sobre a formação de professores a partir do romance Doidinho de José Lins do Rego

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Filosofia com crianças: estudo de uma proposta paulista e considerações a partir da ética

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

A arte de educar entre a mimese e o sublime: considerações a partir de Theodor W. Adorno e Jean François Lyotard

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC