Abstract
The first international documents on medical ethics and bioethics were produced in the aftermath of the Second World War and, therefore, focused on biomedical research with human subjects. In the following decades different institutions dedicated to bioethics were created, some of them in the international realm, such as the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, the Council of Europe, WHO, and UNESCO - these last three, having a larger scope, established specialized departments and/or programs on bioethics.As the institutionalization process of bioethics unfolded, the number of international documents increased significantly, the range of fields expanded from research to clinical practice and to public health policies, the diversity of the issues studied multiplied accordingly, and the ethical principles formulated grew in number and specification.This entry refers to the main institutions or bodies in the field of bioethics and the most important international documents they produced, reflecting on their nature and strength, within a historic and thematic framework, establishing a line of evolution of bioethics.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of global bioethics |
| Editors | Henk Have |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 1659-1669 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319094830 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319094823 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
Keywords
- Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine/CoE
- Directive
- Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects/CIOMS
- Ethical principles
- Helsinki declaration/WMA
- Nuremberg Code
- Opinion
- Protocol
- Recommendation
- Regulation
- Resolution
- UNESCO declarations
