Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics

This article argues that 21st century bioethics should focus on improving ethics committees and its procedures. Backed by international bodies as UNESCO and states the implementation of ethics infrastructures as necessary for approaching the ethical issues related to medicine, life sciences and asso...

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Autor: Lecuona Ramírez, Itziar de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Palabra clave:Bioètica
Drets humans
Nanotecnologia
Justícia social
Bioethics
Human rights
Nanotechnology
Social justice
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spelling Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethicsLecuona Ramírez, Itziar deBioèticaDrets humansNanotecnologiaJustícia socialBioethicsHuman rightsNanotechnologySocial justiceThis article argues that 21st century bioethics should focus on improving ethics committees and its procedures. Backed by international bodies as UNESCO and states the implementation of ethics infrastructures as necessary for approaching the ethical issues related to medicine, life sciences and associated technologies have become a way of “doing” bioethics irrespective of their scope and, from a critical point of view, with a certain degree of distortion in their creation. Likewise, the article predicts that the union between bioethics and human rights supported by the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights will mark the future of bioethics, placing the committees in a strategic position, as mechanisms to put in practice the principles it establishes. The union between bioethics and human rights shows that defining bioethics remains a challenge. In relation to this issue the article points out the basic traces of the discipline and its contents. It also points out the evolution from bioethics of an autonomist nature to a 21st century bioethics with a marked social character that ethics committees should put into practice integrating principles as social responsability and health in bioethical reflection trying to solve and eradicate inequalities. Orientation of research and development in nanotechnology provides an example of the ideas this article aims to present, and specifically how ethics committees have a key role in 21st century bioethics.Springer Nature2011info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/224228Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésVersió postprint del document publicat.Asian Bioethics Review, 2011, vol. 3, num.2, p. 164-169(c) National University of Singapore and Springer Nature Singapore, 2011info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/2242282026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics
title Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics
spellingShingle Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics
Lecuona Ramírez, Itziar de
Bioètica
Drets humans
Nanotecnologia
Justícia social
Bioethics
Human rights
Nanotechnology
Social justice
title_short Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics
title_full Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics
title_fullStr Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics
title_full_unstemmed Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics
title_sort Ethics committees: The challenges facing 21st century bioethics
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lecuona Ramírez, Itziar de
author Lecuona Ramírez, Itziar de
author_facet Lecuona Ramírez, Itziar de
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Bioètica
Drets humans
Nanotecnologia
Justícia social
Bioethics
Human rights
Nanotechnology
Social justice
topic Bioètica
Drets humans
Nanotecnologia
Justícia social
Bioethics
Human rights
Nanotechnology
Social justice
description This article argues that 21st century bioethics should focus on improving ethics committees and its procedures. Backed by international bodies as UNESCO and states the implementation of ethics infrastructures as necessary for approaching the ethical issues related to medicine, life sciences and associated technologies have become a way of “doing” bioethics irrespective of their scope and, from a critical point of view, with a certain degree of distortion in their creation. Likewise, the article predicts that the union between bioethics and human rights supported by the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights will mark the future of bioethics, placing the committees in a strategic position, as mechanisms to put in practice the principles it establishes. The union between bioethics and human rights shows that defining bioethics remains a challenge. In relation to this issue the article points out the basic traces of the discipline and its contents. It also points out the evolution from bioethics of an autonomist nature to a 21st century bioethics with a marked social character that ethics committees should put into practice integrating principles as social responsability and health in bioethical reflection trying to solve and eradicate inequalities. Orientation of research and development in nanotechnology provides an example of the ideas this article aims to present, and specifically how ethics committees have a key role in 21st century bioethics.
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