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Title Ibero-American bioethics : history and perspectives / Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, Fernando Lolas Stepke, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 397 pages)
Series Philosophy and medicine ; v. 106
Philosophy and medicine ; v. 106.
Contents Foreword / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Introduction / Léo Pessini and Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine -- Reflections from the Latin American context. The historical setting of Latin American bioethics / Diego Grácia Guillén -- The discourses of bioethics in Latin America / José Alberto Mainetti -- A personal history of bioethics in Latin America : the current challenge to the medical profession and the influence of pharmaceutical companies / James F. Drane -- Bioethics in Latin America and Colombia / Alfonso Lhano Escobar, S.J. -- The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and Latin America bioethics / Fernando Lolas Stepke -- Reflections from pioneering voices. References to bioethics in Argentina / José Alberto Mainetti and Marta Lucia Perez -- Bioethics in Bolivia : antecedents and projections / Javier Luna Orosco Eduardo -- An X-ray of bioethics in Brazil : pioneering voices, institutional and educational programs, and perspectives / Léo Pessini and Christian de Paul de Barchifontain -- Bioethics in Chile / Miguel Kottow -- Evolution of bioethics in Costa Rica : a recent history / Daniel Bustos Montero -- Bioethics in Cuba : responsibility and solidarity / José Ramón Acosta Sariego -- The history of bioethics in the Dominican Republic / Miguel Angel Suazo -- Historical aspects of the development of bioethics in Ecuador / Katya Rodríguez -- A survey of the development of Mexican bioethics : genomic medicine as one of its greatest challenges / Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez [and others] -- The history of bioethics in Panama / Claude Vergés -- The history and development of bioethics in Paraguay / Marta Ascurra -- Bioethics in Peru / Roberto Lhanos Zuloaga -- Bioethics in Portugal / Jorge Biscaia and Walter Osswald -- Historical development of bioethics in Puerto Rico / Leonides Santos y Vargas -- The dynamics of the bioethical dialogue in Spain / Francesc Abel and Núria Terribas -- Bioethics in Venezuela : first footpaths / Ludwig Schmidt H. -- Special topics in bioethics. Bioethics and religion in Latin America / Márcio Fabri dos Anjos -- Bioethics and women in Latin America : a biographical and genealocical essay / Debora Diniz and Dirce Guilhem -- Bioethics and the environment : a hermeneutic approach / José Roque Junges and Lucilda Selli -- Human vulnerability / José Eduardo de Siqueira and Marco Segre -- Ethics of research involving human beings : the Brazilian experience / William Saad Hossne and Corina Bontempo Duca de Freitas -- The future of Ibero-American bioethics. A prospective examination for discovering challenges from the Hispano-American historical context / Hubert Lepargneur -- A critical reading of Latin American bioethics / Germán Calderón Legarda -- What kind of future awaits us? some challenging questions for the future of bioethics in Ibero-America / Lèo Pessini and Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine -- Postscript. The many beginnings of bioethics : a comparison of American and Ibero-American bioethics and the possibility of a global bioethics / Jennifer A. Bulcock
Summary Traces the development of bioethics in the Ibero-American context. This book discuses the relationship of bioethics in Latin America to questions and issues in Roman Catholic moral theology and philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bioethics -- Latin America -- History
Bioethics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Ethics.
Bioethics -- history
Ethics
Bioethical Issues -- history
ethics (philosophy)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Bioethics
Bioethics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Bioethik
SUBJECT Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074879
Latin America
Subject Latin America
Lateinamerika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pessini, Leocir, 1955-
Barchifontaine, Christian de Paul de, 1946-
Lolas, Fernando
ISBN 9781402093500
1402093500