Overview
- Presents the state of the art in biolaw, with a focus on biomedicine
- Gathers contributions by some of the world’s most prominent experts on biolaw and bioethics
- Considers controversial topics straight from today’s headlines
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 78)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations of Biolaw
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Biolaw in the World and in Latin America
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Biolaw for the Biosciences, Health Care and Non-human Animals
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
is a jurist and philosopher. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and Postdocs in Bioethics and Philosophy from Georgetown University, USA, as well as a Postdoc in Law from the Washington College of Law, USA. He is a former Adjunct Research Professor of Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, and is currently a Visiting Research Professor at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, USA. He is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK, American University of Sovereign Nations, USA, University for the Humanities of Moscow, Russia, University of La Coruña, Spain, and University of Princeton, USA, among others. He is a Founding Member and President of the International Network of Biolaw (www.internationalnetworkbiolaw.org), Vice-President of the Ibero-American Association of Practical Philosophy, and a member of the Colombian Institute of Bioethical Studies. He is the author of several books and papers on bioethics and biolaw, both in English and Spanish.
JUAN ALBERTO LECAROS
holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and a Master in Bioethics from the Borja Institute of Bioethics, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain. He is Director of the Center for Bioethics and the Observatory of Bioethics and Law at the Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago de Chile. Further, he is an Adjunct Professor at the Borja Institute of Bioethics, Ramon Llull University and a founding member of the International Network of Biolaw. He was awarded the Manuel Velasco Suárez Award for Excellence in Bioethics, granted by the Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, in 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biolaw and Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Book Subtitle: Building Answers for New Questions
Editors: Erick Valdés, Juan Alberto Lecaros
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05903-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05902-6Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05903-3Published: 24 January 2019
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 347
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioethics, Medical Law, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology