[Bioethics committees]

The present paper exposes a brief historical route showing the context of the Ethics Committee developing. The moral conflicts in clinical care that doctors had to face with the introduction of the new technologies, the creation of the first clinical committees in USA and the abuses in the biomedical investigations, determined the establishment of ethical guidelines and settled institutional review committees for its control. First Bioethics Committees in Argentina were established by adopting the US Ethic Committees model. The proliferation of hospital ethics committees was related to local regulations requirements. Current regulations. Bioethics Committees in Buenos Aires City, through the data of a survey.