Bioethics: Foundations, Applications and Future Challenges

The aim of this book is to introduce and discuss bioethics in a three-synergistic way: from the foundations to the current debates in relation to healthcare and social bioethics, and thereafter the possible future challenges. In this sense, the target audience can be from diverse disciplines: life and medical sciences, law, philosophy, psychology, and education. The book will be useful to high school students, in their first contacts with bioethics, college students, teachers and researchers, and the general public interested in these controversial debates of the past, present and future of bioethics. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Preface Table of Contents The Bioethical Principles: State of Art 1. Towards a Definition of Bioethics as a Discipline 2. History of Bioethics 3. The Principlist Approach in Bioethics Applied Bioethics 4. Bioethics in Biomedical Research 5. Unresolved Problems in Bioethics: The Beginning and End of Life 6. Ethics of Health Care Allocation of Resources. The Case of Organ Transplantation 7. Social Bioethics Future Challenges 8. Challenges in Biomedical Areas 9. Roles and Challenges for Clinical Ethics Committees and Clinical Ethics Consultation Systems 10. Critical Bioethical Approach to Health Crisis Scenarios 11. The Challenge of Teaching Bioethics Index About the Editors