This volume contains the Proceedings of a three-year NEH-sponsored seminar on bioethics, held at the University of Puerto Rico during the summers of 1998-2000. This is one of the finest collections of interdisciplinary studies covering the areas of philosophy, history, theology, literature, and the behavioral sciences. A distinguished international panel of scholars, including Edmund Pellegrino, Diego Gracia Guillén, Javier Gafo, Samuel Banks, and Joanne Trautman, among others, present their penetrating research in a lucid and engaging style.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedicatoria
- Preface
- Introduction
- Bioethics as an interdisciplinary enterprise: where does Ethics fit in the mosaic of disciplines?
- La bioética como una disciplina critica
- Religiones y bioética
- Gender issues facing the new millenium: a global perspective
- La dimensión bioética de las profesiones sanitarias
- Nursing at the crossroads
- El sentido de la vida y la espiritualidad en la relación entre el profesional de la salud y su paciente
- Suicide: A solution to problems with dying?
- El porqué y el qué de los comités de ética
- Impact of market forces on health care
- Ethics in the age of health care reform
- Ecoética
- Agenda bioética para Puerto Rico: un diálogo abierto
- Lista de los participantes