Informed consent for the terminally ill and their families

Authors

  • Gilberto Alfonso Gamboa Bernal Author Universidad de La Sabana

Abstract

Telling the truth to the terminally ill and their families about the state of their illness cannot be used as an endorsement for euthanasia. Instead, It is an activity oriented towards facilitating a peaceful death and an acceptance that death and life are inexorably intertwined.

These and other more general topics related to the informed consent, are looked at in this article written by Psychiatrist Gilberto Gamboa Bernal from the Bioethics Academy of Santiago de Cali.

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Author Biography

Gilberto Alfonso Gamboa Bernal, Universidad de La Sabana

Médico y Cirujano de la escuela de Medicina “Juan N. Corpas”. Estudios en Filosofía y Psiquiatría. Especialista en Bioética de la Universidad de La Sabana. Candidato a la Maestría en Bioética. En la actualidad hace parte de la Unidad Académica de Ética y Bioética Escuela de Salud Pública, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle;  dicta Ética en pregrado y Bioética en Pregrado y Bioética en postgrado. Es Coordinador de la Academia de Bioética Santiago de Cali, de la Universidad del Valle. Autor de varios trabajos y artículos en temas de Ética y Bioética.

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How to Cite

Gamboa Bernal, G. A. (2009). Informed consent for the terminally ill and their families. Persona Y Bioética, (5), 32–52. Retrieved from https://personaybioetica.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/personaybioetica/article/view/636

Issue

No. 5 (1999)

Section

Reflection Article

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