Abstract

ZAPATA OSPINA, Juan Pablo. The dangerous health business (2018) and The Bleeding Edge (2018): exposing corruption in biomedical research. Rev Med Cine [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.4, pp.255-260.  Epub Jan 11, 2021. ISSN 1885-5210.  https://dx.doi.org/10.14201/rmc2020164255260.

The documentaries The dangerous health business (2018) and The Bleeding Edge (2018) highlight the risk of corruption that may exist in the biomedical research process, specifically in the development and subsequent approval of medical devices. This industry moves millions of euros per year and therefore can be governed by the logic of profit at the expense of injuries, suffering and death of patients who, with the need to use devices, receive those that are profitable but not effective and safe. This audiovisual material collects cases that require a reflection on the sense of devices invention that should be to improve the health-illness process of people and not the pockets of manufacturers. In that sense, complaints from the media should favor a self-criticism for each individual became capable of reflecting on their own actions and, in a near future, a new collective spirit without corruption be developed.

Keywords : corruption; ethics; ethics in business; communications media.

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