QUESTÕES DE BIOÉTICA NA PANDEMIA DA COVID-19

Abstract

Bioethics area at the Department of Legal Medicine, Bioethics, Labor Medice and Phisycal and Reabilitation Medicine at São Paulo University Medical School, has been developing ethical researches concerning the conflicts of modern world. The new coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has brough several conflicts which might be the most important ones in the last decades. This paper aims at relating some aspects of daily life of those affected by the vírus, besides morbidity and mortality, along with bioethical concepts. The following issues were discussed: autonomy and social inequality, social isolation and intrafamily violence and death and mourning. It is observed that daily conflicts were far beyond the virus contamination. There was an overflow of pandemic side effects. Autonomy, bioethical principle most questioned during pandemic, showed to be thought about only within a relationship bioethics. One can only be able to practice one’s autonomy in an ethical way through an agreement between one´s autonomy and one´s own social responsibility. Social inequalities were widely open during pandemic time thus leading to inequality of treatment resources. Social isolation, which was necessary to stop the virus caused a condition presente in all socieconomic classes: sexual violence against children and adolescents.