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International Capacity‐Building Initiatives for National Bioethics Committees
During the last two decades, national bioethics committees have been established in many countries all over the world. They vary with respect to their structure, composition, and working methods, but the main functions are similar. They are supposed to facilitate public debate on controversial bioet...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6618081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28543656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hast.711 |
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author | Gefenas, Eugenijus Lukaseviciene, Vilma |
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description | During the last two decades, national bioethics committees have been established in many countries all over the world. They vary with respect to their structure, composition, and working methods, but the main functions are similar. They are supposed to facilitate public debate on controversial bioethical issues and produce opinions and recommendations that can help inform the public and policy‐makers. The dialogue among national bioethics committees is also increasingly important in the globalized world, where biomedical technologies raise ethical dilemmas that traverse national borders. It is not surprising, therefore, that the committees are established and active in the technologically advanced countries. There have also been a few international capacity‐building initiatives in bioethics that have had a dual task: networking among existing national bioethics committees and helping establish such committees in those countries that still lack them. The problem is that, due to a lack of information, it is not clear what problems and challenges committees face in the transitioning societies often characterized as low‐ and middle‐income countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-66180812019-07-22 International Capacity‐Building Initiatives for National Bioethics Committees Gefenas, Eugenijus Lukaseviciene, Vilma Hastings Cent Rep Commentaries During the last two decades, national bioethics committees have been established in many countries all over the world. They vary with respect to their structure, composition, and working methods, but the main functions are similar. They are supposed to facilitate public debate on controversial bioethical issues and produce opinions and recommendations that can help inform the public and policy‐makers. The dialogue among national bioethics committees is also increasingly important in the globalized world, where biomedical technologies raise ethical dilemmas that traverse national borders. It is not surprising, therefore, that the committees are established and active in the technologically advanced countries. There have also been a few international capacity‐building initiatives in bioethics that have had a dual task: networking among existing national bioethics committees and helping establish such committees in those countries that still lack them. The problem is that, due to a lack of information, it is not clear what problems and challenges committees face in the transitioning societies often characterized as low‐ and middle‐income countries. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-05-22 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6618081/ /pubmed/28543656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hast.711 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Hastings Center Report, published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Hastings Center This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentaries Gefenas, Eugenijus Lukaseviciene, Vilma International Capacity‐Building Initiatives for National Bioethics Committees |
title | International Capacity‐Building Initiatives for National Bioethics Committees |
title_full | International Capacity‐Building Initiatives for National Bioethics Committees |
title_fullStr | International Capacity‐Building Initiatives for National Bioethics Committees |
title_full_unstemmed | International Capacity‐Building Initiatives for National Bioethics Committees |
title_short | International Capacity‐Building Initiatives for National Bioethics Committees |
title_sort | international capacity‐building initiatives for national bioethics committees |
topic | Commentaries |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6618081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28543656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hast.711 |
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