Ibero-American Bioethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Reflections from the Latin American Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Historical Setting of Latin American Bioethics

      • Diego Grácia Guillén

      Pages 3-19

   3. The Discourses of Bioethics in Latin America

      • José Alberto Mainetti

      Pages 21-27

   4. A Personal History of Bioethics in Latin America: The Current Challenge to the Medical Profession and the Influence of Pharmaceutical Companies

      • James Drane

      Pages 29-41

   5. Bioethics in Latin America and Colombia

      • Escobar S. J. Alfonso Llano

      Pages 43-53

   6. The Pan American Health Organization and Latin American Bioethics

      • Fernando Lolas Stepke

      Pages 55-60

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

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.

• Abortion
• Ethics
• Euthanasia
• Latin America
• Religion
• american bioethics
• bioethics
• development of bioethics
• environment
• history of bioethics
• morality

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)

• Centro Universitário São Camilo, São Paulo, Brazil

  Léo Pessini, Christian Paul de Barchifontaine

• University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile

  Fernando Lolas Stepke

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