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The purpose of this paper is to review the limitations in the current view of bioethics to face the challenges posed by the techno-scientific risk society to life. We conducted an exploratory study whose approach to the research problem is supported by complexity and whose methodology is a narrative review of such topics. For this purpose, an overview of the concepts related to global bioethics and complexity is made in light of the texts analyzed, the restrictions of the current perspective are shown, and the essential criteria to develop a complex perspective of phenomena are determined. Under these conditions, we propose to treat complexity as a central element to substantiate global bioethics. The article presents several reflections on the relevance of this view of global bioethics to tackle the phenomenon of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the phenomenon of the medicalization of life, related to the end of it, outlining links with the law through the legalization of health, and thus incorporates this term as a result. It focuses on a current case of withdrawal of life support and it's related to the patient's rights law, judgments, international legislation, and medical, bioethical and legal doctrine. The theoretical framework is the complex thought of Edgar Morin and the trialist theory of the legal world. The contribution focuses on the complex and trialist treatment of the phenomenon of the medicalization of death. As for the methodology, the qualitative one is raised, studying cases reflected in failures, and analyzing its speech. The subject allows dealing with problems of general theory of law such as the legislative vacuum and the role of the judge. It is provisionally concluded that Argentina has a legal culture, despite the law that includes for the so-called dignified death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]