Controversies in Latin American Bioethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Why (and How) Bioethics Matters in Latin America

   • Martin Hevia, Eduardo Rivera-López

   Pages 1-8

3. Sexual and Reproductive Rights

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Anti-abortion Laws and the Ethics of Abortion

      • Gustavo Ortiz Millán

      Pages 11-32

   3. Conscious Oppression: Conscientious Objection in the Sphere of Sexual and Reproductive Health

      • Marcelo Alegre

      Pages 33-51

   4. The Legal Status of Surrogacy in Latin America

      • Martin Hevia

      Pages 53-63

4. Vulnerability, Exploitation, and Commodification

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Revisiting Vulnerability: Its Development and Impact

      • Florencia Luna

      Pages 67-81

   3. Consent and Exploitation in Bioethics: Individual Ethics and Legal Regulation

      • Eduardo Rivera-López

      Pages 83-95

   4. Oneself and One’s Body: Commodification and (In)alienability

      • Antonio Bascuñán Rodríguez

      Pages 97-112

5. Biomedical Research with Human Subjects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Outsourcing Clinical Trials to Latin America: Causes and Impact

      • Nuria Homedes, Antonio Ugalde

      Pages 115-144

   3. Innovative Care in Latin America: Definition, Justification and Ethical Principles

      • Felicitas Holzer, Ignacio Mastroleo

      Pages 145-176

   4. Ethics in Conducting and Communicating Research: A Brazilian Perspective

      • Marisa Palácios, Sergio Rego

      Pages 177-199

6. Agriculture and Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. A Latin American Perspective to Agricultural Ethics

      • Cristian Timmermann

      Pages 203-217

   3. A Territorial Mediation in a Triangular Affair Towards an Ecological Territorial Sovereignty

      • Alfonso Donoso

      Pages 219-235

7. Back Matter

   Pages 237-243

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This book offers a first rate selection of academic articles on Latin American bioethics. It covers different issues, such as vulnerability, abortion, biomedical research with human subjects, environment, exploitation, commodification, reproductive medicine, among others. Latin American bioethics has been, to an important extent, parochial and unable to meet stringent international standards of rational philosophical discussion. The new generations of bioethicists are changing this situation, and this book demonstrates that change. All articles are written from the perspective of Latin American scholars from several disciplines such as philosophy and law. Working with the tools of analytical philosophy and jurisprudence, this book defends views with rational argument, and opening for pluralistic discussion. 

• sexual and reproductive rights
• abortion in latin america
• the concept of vulnerability
• exploitation and bioethics
• biomedical research with human subjects
• clinical innovation
• agriculture and environment
• agricultural ethics in latin america
• sexual and reproductive health
• morality of law
• morality of abortion

• Law School, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Eduardo Rivera-López, Martin Hevia

Eduardo Rivera López is licentiate in Philosophy (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and PhD in Political Sciences (University of Mainz). He has been Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and H.L.A. Hart (Oxford) fellow. He has published books in Argentina, Spain, Germany, and México, and articles on moral philosophy and bioethics in several international journals, among others: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Bioethics, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Journal of Value Inquiry, Law & Philosophy, Utilitas, Ratio, and Journal of Medical Ethics. He is currently full professor at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina.

Martín Hevia is Executive Dean and Associate Professor at the School of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.  He earned his doctorate in law in 2007 atthe University of Toronto, Canada and his law degree in 2001 at the Torcuato Di Tella University. Professor Hevia´s research and teaching interests include Comparative Private and Constitutional Law, Health Law and Reproductive Rights, and Legal and Political Philosophy. He is the autor of Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law (2013), Derecho Privado y Filosofía Política (2011) and editor of Teoría y Crítica de la Propiedad Intelectual (2017) y Teoría y Crítica del Derecho Privado (2012). His papers have been published in international journals such as Harvard Journal of Health & Human Rights, Texas Law Review, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Florida Journal of International Law, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, and International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. His papers have been quoted by Argentine courts such as the National Civil and Commercial Law Chamber. He is the Vice President of the Iberoamerican Association of Law Schools.

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