The subject, its praxis and consequences

Abstract

I recently received a summons made to me by Maria Helena Machado, coordinator of the research team "Working Conditions of Health Professionals in the Context of Covid-19 in Brazil" (original study) 1 and "Invisible healthcare workers: work conditions and mental health in the context of Covid-19 in Brazil" (subproject) 2 to comment on the text "The perspective of Ethics and Bioethics on the worker and work in healthcare, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil", from Professor Swedenberger Barbosa, aware that the article will be included in a thematic edition of Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva.From the outset, I recognize in the article the same availability that the author had already projected in previous works that I know and about which I already had the opportunity to offer my opinion. Notably, the book Bioethics in the Brazilian State. Current Situation and Future Perspectives 3 , which is part of a political-epistemological field, also present in the text I comment on, in which the author establishes a cogent relationship between bioethics and human rights. Indeed, after UNESCO, in 2005, approved the content of the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights, this relationship inevitably operated, and the field began to incorporate, traditional biomedical and biotechnological aspects in studies in the area, as well as the themes of social bioethics with a focus on the universalization of rights and access to public health services and others that give concreteness to the rights of citizenship.In the book, the author deepens the interdisciplinary approach he had already been taking by claiming a closer approximation between these fields. There, he began to problematize the issues that are present in the article, focused on the work conditions of health professionals:How, for example, can we advance so that personal, moral and social rights are guaranteed in the light of new biomedical technologies? How to generate the interface between the constitutional principles of citizenship and human dignity and the urgent decisions that involve conduct and moral regulations in their bioethical dimension and that interfere in human life? How can the current legal order and judicial decisions be considered and updated as 'fair' in terms of the principles and foundations of law and bioethics? How to deal