Ibero-American Bioethics History and Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pessini, Lǒ. (Editor), Paul de Barchifontaine, Christian. (Editor), Lolas Stepke, Fernando. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 106
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Ethics.; medicine > Philosophy.; Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9350-0

IBERO-AMERICAN BIOETHICS: History and Perspectives is a landmark work, collecting the voices of those who participated in the founding and development of bioethics in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. The volume offers the reader a cluster of perspectives on the various births...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
• Introduction
• Lö Pessini and Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine
• Part I. Reflections from the Latin American Context
• Part II. Reflections from Pioneering Voices
• Part III. Special Topics in Bioethics
• Part IV. The Future of Ibero-American Bioethics
• Part V. Postscript
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.