[Twenty years of bioethics in Mexico: development and perspectives of the National Bioethics Commission].

Research involving persons with mental disorders that may affect decisionmaking capacity.

In December 1998, the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) published the above-named report. The committee made twenty-one recommendations, some of which provide a set of requirements that NBAC believes should be satisfied in all research involving persons with mental disorders, while some are optional protections, that may be considered appropriate, depending on the particular circ...

Bioethics Education in Brazil

This chapter starts with presenting some historical facts that helped to develop bioethics in Brazil. Over the last 42 years, since the birth of the bioethics movement, the points of reference are usually the historical facts in the USA at the beginning of the 1970s (Van Rensselaer Potter and the Georgetown principlist paradigm); in Brazil we have only begun to talk about bioethics during the l...

A Review on Bioethics and Legal Concerns in Stem Cell Researches from Embryo Point of View

Introduction: Sharply progression and development in different aspect of technology and science in the field of medicine and sanitation bring many challenges in biological moral and social aspects of the life. Meanwhile statistical problems of this subjects will be rised. Study and researches on embryonic stem cells are one of this specimens. Religions and different ideological views in vast h...

Dealing with Dolly: inside the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.

The National Bioethics Advisory Commission: bridging the gaps in human subjects research protection.