[Bioethics and care: from human rights to quality of care]

The pluralist nature of bioethics and the fact that it spans various branches of science places it in a privileged position to tackle ethical problems that accompany human choices in situations that influence the conditions of living beings. Clearly, issues such as health and care form part of the bioethical sphere of enquiry and it is obviously of fundamental importance that these subjects receive a suitable degree of attention within a branch of science that has always drawn on the contributions of other human sciences. Bioethics looks at the great questions posed by moral principles and seeks to apply them to present concerns.