Abstract
This essay discusses bioethical endogeny, defining it as a tendency of the field towards a self-centered and self-referenced basis that has dispensed with the theoretical and methodological wealth produced by scientific disciplines that preceded it and that share with it subjects of analysis and investigation. In reaction to this tendency, this study presents ideas and concepts developed by some of the main branches of the sociology of science, seeking to demonstrate the pertinence of these contents for bioethical reflections on scientific practices, and on the generation and dissemination of health technologies. It is concluded that the dissolution of the endogeny will be due to disputes of both an epistemological and political-institutional nature that need to be addressed.
Bioethics; Sociology; Science; Technology; Interdisciplinary placement