Abstract

IRRAZABAL, Gabriela. Religion and health: the public intervention of Catholic religious agents trained in bioethics in the parliamentary debate on death with dignity in Argentina. Salud colect. [online]. 2015, vol.11, n.3, pp.331-349. ISSN 1851-8265.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2015.720.

This paper discusses from a sociological perspective one of Catholicism's fronts of public intervention in the development and enactment of health legislation. In particular we analyze the debate in parliamentary committees on the so-called "death with dignity" law (No. 26742), for which a group of bioethics experts was convened to counsel senators regarding the scope and limits of the law. The majority of the invited experts advocated a personalist bioethics perspective, which is a theological bioethics development of contemporary Catholicism. In the debate no representatives of other faiths were present, reinforcing the widely studied overlap between Catholicism and politics in Argentina.

Keywords : Religion; Catholicism; Health Legislation; Right to Die; Bioethics; Argentina.

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