Abstract
Bioethics not only becomes global but it also goes online. Here, the aim is to analyze the role of the Internet in global bioethics. The Internet and the information and communication technologies (ICT) become central instruments to exchange and to produce knowledge; but, are they only means to transmit and to get information? In fact, they are more than instruments backing the construction of a bioethical discourse for the world as a whole. There are complex issues to approach, such as long-term care for dementia, the problem of organ trafficking, and environmental risks. Consequently, bioethics online or e-bioethics could be more than cyberethics or computer ethics; it displays a prospect of shared knowledge and international cooperation. However, there are some arguments still to ponder, because online interaction and actual interaction follow different rules. Networked bioethics puts forward normative and pragmatic questions.
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López de la Vieja, M.T. (2015). Internet. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_257-1
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