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Spanish Bioethics Comes Into Maturity: Personal Reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2009

DIEGO GRACIA GUILLÉN
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The birth of bioethics in Spain—and the rest of Europe—has not necessarily been a replication of what happened in North America, despite the arguments made by a number of mainstream American authors. From a European perspective, this thesis looks incomplete at best, if not entirely erroneous. Let us see why.

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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. 219 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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5. The title of the academic positions have been translated into the most approximate American equivalents. Profesor agregado has been translated as Associate Professor, and catedrático as Chairman of the Department.

6. See note 3, Gracia 1989:21–311.

7. From Washington (Kennedy Institute: Edmund Pellegrino, Tom L. Beauchamp) and New York (Hastings Center: Daniel Callahan, Arthur Caplan) to San Francisco (Albert R. Jonsen), Houston (H. Tristram Engelhart), Texas A&M (John J. McDermott), Chicago (Mark Siegler, Stephen Toulmin, David Thomasma), Edinboro (James F. Drane), Hershey (K. Danner Clouser), Galveston (Chester R. Burns, Ronald A. Carson, William J. Winslade), and Memphis (Carson Strong, E. Haavi Morreim).

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