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Bioethics in the Americas: North and South—A Personal Story

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2009

JAMES F. DRANE
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Where I am, in the late 70s, I find myself being asked to do far more than I am able. I'm at the stage when everyone assumes that I don't have any real work, so it's OK to ask for things. Increasingly the things I'm asked to do are historical: What was it like back then? When did you start doing this or that? How did this or that get started? I guess I'm in the penultimate period. I'm still working every day, much harder than I would like, and upset by the fact that my memory is not working the way it should. With this public confession, I'll now start my penance, that is, to do a little personal history of my involvement with bioethics first here in the United States, then in Spain and Spanish-speaking nations of Latin America.

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Special Section: The Many Voices of Spanish Bioethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 280 - 286
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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References

1. Rodríguez del Pozo P, Fins JJ. Iberian influences on Pan-American bioethics: Bringing Don Quixote to our shores. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2006;15(3):225–38.

2. Dr. Mainetti published a journal, Quirón, dedicated to medical humanities. In 1987, he published a book, Introducción a la Bioética.

3. Drane JF, Fuenzalida HL. Medical ethics in Latin America: A new interest and commitment. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1991;1(4):325–38.

4. Lolas F. Rehistoriar la bioética en Latinoamérica. La contribución de James Drane. Acta Bioethica 2005;XI-2:161–8.

5. To apply for the scholarship or to receive information about what is offered at the James F. Drane Bioethics Institute go to www.edinboro.edu/bioethics/bioethics.asp or write to the Director of James F. Drane Institute, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Baron-Forness Library 2nd Floor, Edinboro, PA 16444.