18 articles in this issue
Fernando Lolas Stepke
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Ángel R. Concepción Alfonso, R. de la Peña Pino, J. García Capote
The vertiginous advance of the scientific technical revolution and the use not always rational and ethical of animals in research, has provoked that many researchers worry about the future of animal species used, which has been the topic of many studies i... see more
Jorge Fernández Hernández, Yvonne Michelle Heuze de Icaza
This paper has as goal to analyze the ethics of the care and use of experimental biomodels known as "laboratory animals".It does not pretend to establish a unique model, but to describe the items to be considered by institutions which produce, maintain an... see more
Eduardo Rodríguez Yunta
This paper argues about the ethical implications of using animals as models for human medicine development. This reflection adopts an intermediate stand between the extreme positions of condemning all research with animal considering it irrelevant, and th... see more
María Pilar Vinardell Martínez-Hidalgo
Toxicology rules are placing greater emphasis on the evaluation of risks posed by chemical substances on public and environmental health and with this goal, studies with animals have been used. Due to public and scientific pressure there is an increasing ... see more
Jorge Alberto Álvarez-Díaz
The paper reviews the vivisection in nonhuman animals and whether it is justifiable nowadays from a bioethical point of view. The work departs with a brief historical perspective about the animal vivisection topic until the new outbreak of the controversy... see more
Alexandre Bota Arqué
The possibility of genetic modification of living organisms has generated ethical questions of difficult solution. The searching for conceptual frames has put into question whether the ontological status of organisms altered by biotechnology has been chan... see more
Carolina Valdebenito
This paper reflects on the similarities and differences between human beings and animals as members of systems in permanent interaction.The main goal is to define homo, reviewing his/her biological and cultural evolution and reflecting on the animal socia... see more
Sana Loue
We examine the interplay between ethical issues, gender, and culture in the context of our study which examines the context of HIV risk among Puerto Rican and Mexican women with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression. Culture and gender are... see more
Claude Vergès
Which place occupies pleasure in sexual education programs? In Panama, as in other Latin American countries, violence against children and women does not allow people to realize own bodylines and less their right to pleasure. Present programs about sexual... see more
Fernando Suárez Obando, Eduardo Díaz Amado
To take right decisions in medicine from an ethical-moral point of view is a complex matter and to learn to do it must constitute one of the goals of medical training. A way to contribute to achieve this is to integrate a complete theoretical training in ... see more
Cléa Adas Saliba Garbin, Artênio José Isper Garbin, Suzely Adas Saliba, Patrícia Elaine Gonçalves
In Brazil, research involving human beings must obey to ethical norms foresaw by the 196/96 National Health Council Resolution of the Ministry of Health. This paper gives account of a knowledge evaluation about some concepts and rules established by the r... see more
Carolina Manrique Nava, Octaviano Domínguez Márquez
Oscar J. Martínez González
Juan María Parent Jacquemin
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