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Ibero-American Bioethics

History and Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Léo Pessini

    1. Centro Universitário São Camilo, São Paulo, Brazil

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  2. Christian Paul de Barchifontaine

    1. Centro Universitário São Camilo, São Paulo, Brazil

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  3. Fernando Lolas Stepke

    1. University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile

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  • First English-language book-length work to deal with the development of bioethics and its history in both the Iberian peninsula and Latin America
  • Gives a comprehensive and detailed history of the development of bioethics in specific Latin American nations
  • Provides a history of bioethics with its relationship to Roman Catholic theology and moral philosophy in the Ibero-American context
  • Specifically addresses bioethical issues relating to women in the Latin American context

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 106)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Reflections from Pioneering Voices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 62-62
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    2. References to Bioethics in Argentina

      • José Alberto Mainetti, Marta Lucia Perez
      Pages 63-69

    3. Bioethics in Bolivia: Antecedents and Projections

      • Javier Luna Orosco Eduardo
      Pages 71-87

    4. An X-Ray of Bioethics in Brazil: Pioneering Voices, Institutional and Educational Programs and Perspectives

      • Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine
      Pages 89-106

    5. Bioethics in Chile

      • Miguel Kottow
      Pages 107-115

    6. Evolution of Bioethics in Costa Rica: A Recent History

      • Daniel Bustos-Montero
      Pages 117-124

    7. Bioethics in Cuba: Responsibility and Solidarity

      • José Ramón Acosta Sariego
      Pages 125-139

    8. The History of Bioethics in the Dominican Republic

      • Miguel Angel Suazo
      Pages 141-147

    9. Historical Aspects of the Development of Bioethics in Ecuador

      • Katya Rodríguez
      Pages 149-158

    10. A Survey of the Development of Mexican Bioethics: Genomic Medicine as One of Its Greatest Challenges

      • Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez, Cesar Francisco Lara-Álvarez, Alberto Arellano-Méndez
      Pages 159-173

    11. The History of Bioethics in Panama

      • Claude Vergès
      Pages 175-192

    12. The History and Development of Bioethics in Paraguay

      • Marta Ascurra
      Pages 193-205

    13. Bioethics in Peru

      • Roberto Llanos Zuloaga
      Pages 207-222
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About this book

This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts. As the first of these volumes, Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, and Fernando Lolas Stepke’s work has succeeded well. It has brought together accounts by sch- ars who were crucial to the emergence of bioethics in the Ibero-American cultural domain. This trail-blazing work in the history of bioethics will be of enduring s- nificance. I am deeply in their debt for having shouldered this far from easy task. Bioethics is the product of very particular socio-historical developments. Most prominent among them have been (1) the secularization of the dominant culture of North America, Western Europe, and now Central and South America as well, (2) a deflation of the status and authority of physicians as moral authorities able to guide their own profession, and (3) the salience of a post-traditional animus that gives c- tral place to persons as isolated atomic sources of moral authority. Bioethics initially took shape in North America as a post-Christian, post-professional, post-traditional social movement. This bioethics sought to establish a moral discourse for the public forum, a moral practice able to give practical guidance in hospitals and other insti- tions, and a body of undergirding and justifying theoretical reflections.

Reviews

From the reviews:

Pessini, Barchifontaine, and Lolas have succeeded in gathering and superbly focusing a rich exploration of the origin and development of bioethics in Ibero-America. To understand American bioethics in perspective, from now on one will need to read this volume. It is a major cultural resource.-David Solomon, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame

No one interested in Latin-American studies, and surely no one with interest in the global phenomenon of bioethics, can do without this book. This is a splendid and rich portrayal of the birth and maturation of Ibero-American bioethics.-Nicholas Capaldi, Loyola University New Orleans

“This volume … addresses the topics of the development of bioethics on the territory of Latin America (including the role of Portugal and Spain in it, as these European cultures played a major part in the creation of the Latin American cultures), main features of bioethics, and guidelines for future achievements. … It also provides the reader with the possibility to get acquainted with the kind of bioethical perspective that differs quite a lot from the dominant Anglophone, North American and European, bioethics.” (Robert Doričić, JAHR, Vol. 2 (4), September, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro Universitário São Camilo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Léo Pessini, Christian Paul de Barchifontaine

  • University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile

    Fernando Lolas Stepke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ibero-American Bioethics

  • Book Subtitle: History and Perspectives

  • Editors: Léo Pessini, Christian Paul de Barchifontaine, Fernando Lolas Stepke

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9350-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9349-4Published: 04 February 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3144-8Published: 04 May 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9350-0Published: 16 December 2009

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 397

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethics, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Medicine

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