Lung cancer is a neoplasm originating in the epithelium that covers the bronchial mucosa and alveoli. Its importance in the study of respiratory pathology is given not only by its aggressiveness but also by its increasing frequency throughout the 20th century and so far in the 21st century, to the point that today Thoracic Surgery Services consider it as one of their most common diseases. Furthermore, although initially it was a neoplasm that appeared almost exclusively in men, its incidence has increased to such an extent among women that currently they are about half of those who consult....

Il est pratiquement unanime que la bioéthique a vu le jour ou, du moins, a été acceptée comme une discipline ayant sa propre entité après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le fonctionnement de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), un organe de l'Organisation des Nations unies créé à l'époque, a beaucoup à voir avec ce type de renouvellement des concepts éthiques en médecine. Preuve en est que des institutions telles que l'Université de Buenos Aires (UBA) ont cessé d'utiliser le serment d'Hippocrate comme engagement déontologique des étudiants lors de la remise des diplômes....

It is practically unanimous that Bioethics originated or, at least, was accepted as a discipline with its own entity after the Second World War. The functioning of the World Health Organization (WHO), a body under the United Nations Organization established at that time, has much to do with this kind of renewal of ethical concepts in medicine. Proof of this is that institutions such as the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) stopped using the Hippocratic Oath as a deontological commitment of students in the act of graduation. Objectively, such an attitude implies leaving aside a millenary...