Ibero-American Symposium on Palliative Care

Experts in Palliative Care address the great problem that exists worldwide due to the lack of integration of health policies.

On October 20, the Ibero-American Symposium on Palliative Care was held with the participation of Dr. Fernando Fabo L.C .; Dean of the Faculty of Bioethics and Dr. Adriana Temples, associate researcher at the Faculty of Bioethics, who gave the welcomed words.

New index for the Medicine & Ethics Journal

The Sherpa Romeo database houses periodical and peer-reviewed scientific publications of high-quality standards.

The journal Medicine and Ethics of the Faculty of Bioethics has been indexed in the Sherpa Romeo database, which houses periodic and peer-reviewed scientific publications of high-quality standards and brings together rigorously evaluated international publications.

Session of "Querida Amazonia" analyzes the Encyclical Fratelli Tutti in the first year of its publication

The Faculty of Bioethics had three specialists to talk about the challenges of global bioethics for the construction of fraternity and social friendship.

During the 13th session of Querida Amazonia of our Faculty of Bioethics: "Echoes and resonances of the Fratelli Tutti in the first year of its publication", encyclical published by Pope Francis in October 2020 in Assisi, we had a triple participation of experts.

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Biomedical research on human subjects from the perspective of public ethics: the social value of research.

Biomedical research on human subjects in Middle-Low and LowIncome Countries (LMICs or LICs) has aroused the interest of bioethics in how to achieve an equitable distribution of benefits. Questions of justice have been addressed under the concept of «reasonable availability» or «fair benefit sharing». However, the inadequacy of this approach lies in the fact that public issues have been addressed from the bioethical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. Recently, the subject has been approached from the standpoint of social justice, but the approach of ethics referring to populations or public ethics is apending subject to be studied in greater depth. This paper aims to point out the importance of this complementary approach. It is intended, from public ethics, to see the need to focus on the social value of the knowledge generated, and to offer some guiding criteria to be detected by Research Ethics Committees.

CONBIOETHICS RESOURCES: October catalog 2021

Who is Prof. Henk Ten Have?

• Dr. Henk ten Have is physician and philosopher graduated from Leiden University in the Netherlands after which he was junior researcher in the Pathology Laboratory obtaining his PhD in medicine (1978).
• He worked for some time as medical practitioner at the Municipal Health Services in Rotterdam while obtaining his PhD in philosophy (1983). He was lucky to find a job in the department of medical ethics at the newly established University of Limburg at Maastricht where he was professor of philosophy (1982-1991).
• Next, he served as professor of medical ethics and head of the department of ethics, philosophy and history of medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Catholic University of Nijmegen. In 2003, he became director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology of UNESCO in Paris, France.
• In 2010, he was appointed as director of the Center of Healthcare Ethics of Duquesne University at Pittsburgh, USA. From 2011 to 2019, he was also adjunct professor at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Ryadh, Saudi Arabia. In 2019, he retired in Pittsburgh where he became professor emeritus. In 2021, he was appointed as research professor at Universidad Anahuac Mexico.

Bioethics for prof. ten Have is:

A Critical philosophical discourse on the ethical dimensions of health, healthcare and medicine. Nowadays, this discourse is necessarily global for two reasons.

• Many ethical challenges today are associated with processes of globalization, and they are related to the social, economic, and political contexts of medicine and healthcare. Bioethics therefore can no longer only focus on individual issues of patient care (with the traditional moral queries such as end-of-life decision making and the application of technologies) but has to take into account the structural conditions that affect global health and that give rise to vulnerabilities and inequities.
• The need for a perspective of global bioethics is evident in the current pandemic which besides many problems of individual care, raises issues of solidarity, justice, marginalization, discrimination, and protection of the environment.

The research project that he has enjoyed the most has been the further elaboration of the concept of global bioethics.

• This notion has been developed in three books, starting with Global bioethics (2016) which provides an introduction, elaborated in Vulnerability (2016) which examines the social dimensions of global bioethics, and Wounded planet (2019), discussing its environmental dimensions.
• Next, I have focused on a critique of mainstream bioethics, exploring the images and metaphors that usually dominate ethical thinking, showing how alternative discourses may be presented in global bioethics. This has resulted in two books:
  • Bioethics, healthcare and the soul (2021, together with Renzo Pegoraro)
  • Bizarre Bioethics – Ghosts, monsters and pilgrims (2022)

  Recently, I have been working on the perspective of global bioethics on the Covid-19 pandemic (this book will be published in 2022).

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