Contribuição dos referenciais bioéticos para a ajuda humanitária

Abstract

Major international organizations focused on humanitarian aid, work steadily in the suffering of people in times of armed conflict, natural disasters, poverty, among others. To be recruited for missions, professionals are faced with conflicting situations, making live with dilemmas regularly. It is in this context that bioethics can interfere with driving reflections in order to collaborate with the work of institutions and their volunteers. It was adopted the "Theory References" to identify possible bioethics contribution that, at some point, provides an important tool for understanding and reflection dilemmas. Reports were selected by desk research, primary and secondary sources, relied on anthropological, philosophical and legais clippings. Through a critical and multidisciplinary analysis, they were appointed benchmarks to individual cases, which can be considered a consistent contribution to personal and institutional dilemmas that pervade Humanitarian Aid, representing the beginning of a discussion.