Resumen

CASAS MARTINEZ, María de la Luz. Medicine of improvement, challenge to the purposes of Medicine?. Med. ética [online]. 2020, vol.31, n.3, pp.589-626.  Epub 21-Ago-2023. ISSN 2594-2166.  https://doi.org/10.36105/mye.2020v31n3.03.

Improvement medicine challenges the traditional goals of the medical act based on therapeutics, and approaches transhumanist thinking. Nowadays, several modalities of improvement medicine are practiced with scientific endorsement, but their extremes apply in healthy subjects through enhancement must be reflected in order to not lose the true meaning of Medicine and the care in beneficence of the patient.

Palabras llave : improvement medicine; enhancement; transhumanism; goals of medicine; medical act; bioethics.

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