Bioethics

La vida es valorada por los individuos como un valor básico y como el soporte material para el goce de los demás derechos.

En este documento se hace una revisión de los conceptos de ambiente, la problemática asociada en sus instancias social, económica, política y cultural, enfatizando en la propuesta de un paradigma macrobioético (desarrollo sostenible, globalización, ecosofía), para finalizar analizando los derroteros de la Educación Ambiental formulada tras la Declaración de Tbilisi, y llegar así a una prospección sobre la Educación Ambiental y la Bioética en Colombia: de una ética del ambiente, que no tendría sentido si no está orientada a los individuos, las sociedades y los componentes de la Naturaleza, considerada holísticamente.

Para el Departamento de Bioética de la Universidad El Bosque es un placer presentar la segunda edición parcial en español del libro ¿Qué es la bioética?

Tras algunas décadas de investigación y deliberación rigurosas, la bioética en América Latina –Nuestra América, como la llamó José Martí– está pensando con cabeza y voz propias.

Este numero reune las reflexiones producto de cinco trabajos de investigacion de la Maestria en Bioetica de la Universidad El Bosque que aportan criterios para la toma de decisiones ante conflictos eticos de diversos escenarios.

Los biobancos destinados a la investigacion cientifica constituyen hoy una fuente inagotable de beneficios y esperanzas para la vida de las poblaciones, tanto por sus aportes en el campo de la salud como por representar intereses muy preciados para la identidad de las personas o la historia genetica de una comunidad.

La bioética es un vocablo presentado por el especialista norteamericano Van Rensselaer Potter (1911-2012).

Este libro retoma las primeras meditaciones, publicadas hace 10 años, tras una década de nuevas experiencias, nuevos descubrimientos científicos y cambios tecnológicos, del doctor Fernando Sánchez Torres, reconocido académico colombiano, exrector de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, médico de formación, experto en bioética y artista plástico.

This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals.

This book is focused on the examination of the particular relationship between developments in neuroscience and commonsense concepts, such as free will, personal identity, privacy, etc.

This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role.

Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine.

Asia is by far the largest continent in the world in terms of area with population exceeding 3.

This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health?

With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves.

This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics.

This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D.

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine.

At the time of the first edition of Principles of Cancer Biotherapy in 1987, this book represented the first comprehensive textbook on biological therapy.

PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held June 28, 1999 in Paris, France.

Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.

Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually of premature death.

This book contributes to an overall understanding of the nature and the impact of sexual boundary violations.

The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, between 25-28 May 1999.

This book arises from a two-fold conviction.

This is an original contribution to the much debated area of the value that we should place on human life.

This volume offers a collection of writings on ethical issues regarding retarded persons.

Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine.

Caring for Our Elders is the second of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine.

in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for stockholders, not necessarily medical care for clients.

Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers.

Health care delivery has become institutionalized.

Patient autonomy is a much discussed and debated subject in medical ethics, as well as in healthcare practice, medical law, and healthcare policy.

Among the vast literature on contemporary reproductive technologies, Prosthetic Bodies stands out in its effective combination of insights, methods, and theories from the history of medicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feminist theory.

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT The Human Genome Project (HGP) is now almost completed.

In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the "e;due date"e; for world health.

In this book, developed by a group of collaborating scholars in bioethics from different European countries, an overview is given of the most salient themes in present-day bioethics.

Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine.

This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness.

This collection of essays represents the work produced in the course of a three-year project funded by the Commission of the European Communities under the Biomed I programme, on the ethics of genetic screening, entitled 'Genetic screening: ethical and philosophical perspectives, with special reference to multifactorial diseases'.

This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body.

The editors of the Philosophy and Medicine series recognize with grat- itude the foresight, understanding, hard labor, and patience of Prof.

Efforts to evaluate the clinical encounter in terms of autonomous agents governed by rationally justified moral principles continue to be criticised.

Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap- plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years.

Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary biomedical ethics is that of `rights'.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way.

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate.