VULNERABILITY IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE

Abstract

The polysemy of the adjective ‘vulnerable’, its nuances and approaches, refers to the biological and/or biographical fragility or weakness of an individual or a group (at risk populations). But what about the vulnerability of legitimacy in the bioethical discourse. When we know that Medicine has had a reductionist view and has neglected the vulnerability of the environment and its impact on man. The need to preserve the health of the planet and all the beings that live on it? Ethics and law are thus faced with harmful transgressions and abusive paternalism which use human beings and research protocols in the name of scientific and technological progress.