Comités de ética y de bioética: una diferencia operativa

Abstract

The need to train serious researchers to make them well prepared and willing to work with responsibility and ability enough as to keep a country and a society torn at a crossroads stay afloat and get back on their feet, makes bioethics and ethics committees a tool of first order.

The good use of these instruments leads to both the proper orientation and the encouragement required by good researchers to undertake their work in depth. The origins of contrasting types of committees help defining the shape of their differences. To the extent that their divergences are known and acknowledged, a better service may be rendered which, ultimately, will benefit with a better treatment those who actually give a sense to our working in the area of health, i.e. the sick people. More attention is paid to research-ethics committees, since they are major authorities as determinant factors for development of researchers and research groups -as incipient as they still are in our environment - to take place on sound and objective foundations. This will lead not only to success in investigative work but to the self-perfecting of researchers and professionals as well; and, above all, to respecting and protecting the human being.