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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About this book
The Handbook of Bioethical Decisions is aimed at addressing and analyzing the most important ethical concerns and moral quandaries arisen in biomedical and scientific research. As such, it identifies and problematizes on a comprehensive range of ethical issues researchers must deal with in different critical contexts. Thus, the Handbook, Vol. I, may be helpful for them to make decisions and deliberate in complex practical scenarios. In this fashion, the volume reunites different points of view to give readers room enough to get a better knowledge and take their own position on pressing bioethical issues of the day. Consequently, this work seeks to engender dense ethical epistemology scientists can count on when conducting latest generation biomedical research. By bringing together an impressive array of contributions on the most important elements and categories for “at the bench” bioethical decisions as well as offering chapters by some of the most world renowned and prominent experts in bioethics, the Handbook, Vol. I, is a paradigmatic text in its area and a valuable resource for courses on bioethics, and biomedical research, as well as courses that discuss ethics and the biosciences at different professional levels, biomedical industry, pharmacological companies and the public sphere in general.
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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
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Erick Valdés, Ph.D., is Professor of Bioethics and Biolaw, and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Medicine (ICIM), Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), Santiago, Chile. He has served as Adjunct Research Professor of Bioethics at Georgetown University, USA; Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at American University, USA, and George Mason University, USA; Associate Professor of International Human Rights at the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, USA; and as Visiting Professor at Princeton University, USA. He is President and Founding Member of the International Network of Biolaw. His most recent books are Biolaw, Economics and Sustainable Governance. Addressing the Challenges of a Post-Pandemic World (Routledge, 2022), together with Jacob Dahl Rendtorff; Biolaw: Origins, Doctrine and Juridical Applications on the Biosciences (Springer, 2021); and Bioderecho. Epistemologías y aplicaciones en tiempos de pandemia y riesgo existencial (Tirant lo Blanch, 2021). He also published, together with Juan Alberto Lecaros, Biolaw and Policy in the Twenty-First Century. Building Answers for New Questions (Springer, 2019).
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.
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.
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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