Overview
- Presents the current state of the art in bioethics, with a focus on biomedical research
- Gathers contributions by some of the world’s most prominent experts on bioethics
- Considers controversial topics straight from today’s headlines and includes a preface by Peter Singer
Part of the book series: Collaborative Bioethics (CB, volume 2)
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Biomedical Research: Genetic and Cell Research
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Biomedical Research: Enhancement Research
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Biomedical Research: Research with Human Biological Samples and Health Data
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Juan Alberto Lecaros, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Medicine (ICIM), and Director of the Observatory of Bioethics and Law, Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD) Santiago, Chile. He has served as Visiting Professor at Ramón Llull University, Spain, and at University of the Basque Country, Spain. He is Founding Member of the International Network of Biolaw. He is the author of the forthcoming book Filosofía medioambiental: Principios y valores para una ciudadanía ecológica (Comillas, 2023). In 2019, he published, together with Erick Valdés, Biolaw and Policy in the Twenty-First Century. Building Answers for New Questions (Springer), and Ética animal: Fundamentos empíricos, teóricos y dimensión práctica (Comillas), with Bernardo Aguilera and Erick Valdés. He also published Bioética: el pluralismo de la fundamentación (Comillas, 2016), with other two editors.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Bioethical Decisions. Volume I
Book Subtitle: Decisions at the Bench
Editors: Erick Valdés, Juan Alberto Lecaros
Series Title: Collaborative Bioethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29451-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29450-1Published: 15 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29453-2Published: 16 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29451-8Published: 14 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-5619
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5627
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 778
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioethics, Biomedicine, general, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Environment, general, Biomedicine, general, Environment, general