Bioethics and Territory: An Approach to Bioethical Territorialities

Abstract

Purpose/context. This article approaches the concept of territory as a social construction and bioethical setting. For this purpose, it resorts to some basic assumptions of bioethics and Orlando Fals Borda’s proposal on action and space. In this way, it limits the category of bioethical territorialities, which results from the assembly of biospace and technoregion with the bioethical relationships that these territorial containers involve. Autonomy and justice are highlighted as crucial elements that manage to restructure the relationship between human beings and their environment.
Method/Approach. A hermeneutical approach is used to understand bioethics as a field of knowledge and practices interested in the moral and ethical questions derived from the implications of techno-scientific development for life. This responds to how we inhabit the space and allows us to establish a relationship with the configuration of the territory and the development of territorialities.
Results/Findings. The article presents a theoretical reflection from bioethics on how the human being conceives his or her relationships with the territory, and coins, from his or her understanding, the category of bioethical territorialities. Discussion/Conclusions/Contributions. The article contributes both theoretical elements to think about the territory from bioethics and the concept of bioethical territorialities. We expect that this category will be implemented to delve into future reflections on bioethics, territory, and territorialities.