Queer Bioethics

Abstract

Queer theory was born as a necessity to reconsider the interpretative frame that emerged after the peak and consolidation of modern science, of what is or what should be a healthy individual of the human race. Expanding this critical analysis to the bioethical field implies reconsidering the social, economic and cultural conditions in which are applied the four principles that make this discipline up and, in consequence, opening the universe of possibilities for the individuals to choose, stressing the factors that determine their decisions, differentiating from what I have named naive progressiveness. To address this question, I will divide the present article in two different sections: I will first give a brief introductory vision of what is the queer theory, and in a second place I will analyze autonomy and beneficence through this theory.