[Bioethics: emerging problems and perspectives]

Bioethics was born in an environment of rules that have traditionally governed relationships between health care providers and patients, as an innovation based on two strong points: the ability to transcend the paternalism of doctors and the acceptance of a plurality of ethics that characterize our societies. The new relationships that were born from bioethics require recognition and respect for the autonomy of the individual, even when they are sick. Instead of sincerely resolving a request for an agreement, the actual practice of informed consent, if any information is actually consented to at all, is more of a guarantee for the health care provider. With respect to pluralism, the polarization between secular bioethics and religious bioethics (Catholic), prevalent in Italy, tends to solidify the positions. Bioethics without dialogue is reduced to BioLaw.