Bioethics, biopolitics and public policy: warp and weft to enhance life

Abstract

Purpose/Context. This text seeks to generate and stablish the relationship that exist between bioethics, impolitic and public policies, having in mind how the bioethic has been related and sheltered inside politics and economic interests.

Methodology/Focus. To do this, it starts with the relation between politics and bioethics, then a look to the biopolitics in relation either Zoe and Bios, finishing with the relation politic policies with a bioethics.

Results/Findings. First, bioethics, in the study of public policies, observes the way societies develop, their relationship with norms, hierarchies and decision systems that deal with the potency of life, but also delimit it. Second, public policies have two attributes: On the one hand, they reveal the governmental feature of any political regime and the device in its institutional form.

Discussion/Conclusions/Contribution. Seeing how these in sets stablish flexible transdiciplimaty and interdisciplinary relations, where there's an enhance of critical sense of political action inside bioethics, in addition of expanding the investigator's views, as well as possibilities of approaches to society.