[extropy-chat] UNESCO: Guide to Establishing Bioethics Committees

[Jose Cordeiro]

        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                Guide N°.1 Establishing Bioethics Committees
   
  UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
  DIVISION OF ETHICS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  UNESCO 2005
   
  Available online as PDF file [74p.] at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001393/139309e.pdf 
   
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The need to reflect on the moral dimension of advances in science and technology, as well as the desire to enhance the public’s health has, in many areas of the world, led to the establishment of various forms of Bioethics Committees, four of which are described and discussed in this Guide.
   
  These committees have received various titles: (1) ‘ethics committee’, ‘ethics or bioethics commission’, and ‘council on bioethics’ at the national level; (2) ‘health-professional association bioethics committees’ at the national and regional levels; (3) ‘health care/hospital ethics committees’, usually established at the local level; and (4) ‘research ethics committees’, established at different levels in various Member States.
   
  The Guide has been prepared not only for the use of ministers, but also for their policy advisers at the national, regional and local levels, leaders and members of professional and scientific research associations, and chairpersons and members of various forms of bioethics committees. Each of them, of course, is at liberty to affirm its purposes, articulate its functions and determine its routine working procedures
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  Establishing bioethics committees may be a first step for States to create platforms and bodies for ethical debate, analysis and policy development.
  Continuous reflection on the bioethical issues raised by advances along the spectrum of the biological sciences and various biotechnologies will giv
   
  Content: 
  INTRODUCTION 
  Part I THE CHALLENGES AND TASKS OF BIOETHICS COMMITTEES 
  1. Human Dignity and the Doctrine of Informed Consent
  2. The New Applied Bioethics of the Health Professions
  3. What are Bioethics Committees?
  4. Reasons for Establishing Bioethics Committees
  5. Possible Misunderstanding of the Purposes and Functions of Bioethics Committees
  Part II ESTABLISHING BIOETHICS COMMITTEES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT
  1. National level
  2. Regional level
  3. Local level
  Part III DIFFERENT FORMS OF BIOETHICS COMMITTEES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT
  1. Policy-Making and/or Advisory Bioethics Committees/Commissions/Councils (PMAs) at the National Level
  Background, Purposes, Functions, Committee Size, Recruiting Chairpersons and Members , Funding
  Bioethical Dilemmas: Cases for PMAs
  2. Health-Professional Associations (HPA) Bioethics Committees
  Background, Purposes, Functions, Committee Size 
  Recruiting Chairpersons and Members, Funding, Bioethical Dilemmas: A Case for HPA Committees
  3. Health care/Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs)
  4. Research Ethics Committees (RECs
  (i) The Use of Animals in Biological, Biomedical and Behavioural Research
  (ii) The Imperative to Protect Human Participants Involved in Biological, Biomedical and  Behavioural Research
  (iii) Fundamental Dilemmas in Research Ethics
  (iv) Bioethics and Transnational Research: External and Host States
  Part IV PROCEDURES AND OPERATIONS
  Part V EVALUATING BIOETHICS COMMITTEES
  Part VI RECOMMENDED READING
  APPENDIX 






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