VULNERABILITY IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3917/dsso.063.0009Keywords:
Vulnerability, Bioethics, Medical ethics.Abstract
The polysemy of the adjective, its nuances and approaches allude to the biological and/or biographical fragility or weakness of an individual or social group (populations at risk). Vulnerability legitimizes itself in bioethical discourse. Medicine has had a reductionist vision and neglected the vulnerability of the environment and its impact on human beings. The need to preserve
the health of the planet and of all beings living on it. Ethics and law against harmful transgressions and abusive paternalism that use human beings in research protocols in the name of scientific and technological progress.

