Bioethics and worker health: an interface

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to propose an ethical approach in the health-work relationship, initially on the part of two historical landmarks that point to the interface between bioethics and workers' health. Focusing on the limits of corporate deontologies, the derived process of putting the blame on workers and the new bio-techno-scientific world of work. This reflection points out new modes of appropriation and possibilities for reshaping questions that reshape that encompass the field of workers' health, based on contributions offered by bioethics. It concludes mentioning the persistent and emergent problems in the world of labor, asking whether the interface of bioethics with workers' health finds a place as a contra-hegemonic thinking capable of establishing epistemological reference points that may contribute to shortening the path between consolidated theory and transformational praxis not yet experienced in the world of work.