Bioethics for the 21st century: building hope
Bioethics faces the challenge of collaborating in building a just and sustainable world. This article analyzes the birth of bioethics as a civic bioethics of pluralistic societies in the context of applied ethics, its evolution to become a global bioethics, its current structure, the challenges it f...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad Pontificia Comillas
2016-05-01
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Series: | Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética |
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Online Access: | http://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/bioetica-revista-iberoamericana/article/view/6764 |
Summary: | Bioethics faces the challenge of collaborating in building a just and sustainable world. This article analyzes the birth of bioethics as a civic bioethics of pluralistic societies in the context of applied ethics, its evolution to become a global bioethics, its current structure, the challenges it faces, and finally the kind of practical reasoning that should guide its task if bioethics is to achieve its goals. |
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ISSN: | 2529-9573 |