The Bioethics Research Group of the Universitat de València (GIBUV) works in an interdisciplinary way on the new ethical challenges that arise in health care and life sciences. It is currently made up of 39 researchers from various disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, nursing, psychology, law, pedagogy, social work and chemistry, and is open to the participation of researchers from other fields.
Among the entities represented, in addition to the Universitat de València (with the participation of five different faculties), are a number of hospitals and health centres in the Valencia region and central services.
GIBUV was officially born in January 2004, when Juan Carlos Siurana, then Ramón y Cajal researcher, registered at the Universitat de València the group he coordinated with research fellows interested in bioethics from the Doctoral Programme in Ethics and Democracy. The registration reference is UV-0283. Shortly afterwards, its website was created and contacts with other researchers were initiated. Since then, the group has grown to take on the broad and diverse form it has today. It has developed five research projects funded by competitive calls, among which we highlight the following: The new challenges for bioethics: fundamentals of bioethics, ethics of the environment and biotechnologies, ethics of health organisations and clinical ethics, reference GV04A309, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government); Reciprocal recognition as a basis for intercultural bioethics, reference: FFI2008-06133/FISO, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation; and Els efectes del bon humor en el grau d'autonomia dels pacients en la fase final de la vida (Valencian for Good mood effects on the degree of autonomy of patients in the final phase of life.) reference PCC-8/13, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana.
It has also developed two other funded projects on ethical aspects of health care for immigrants and the elderly, and is carrying out its own project on the reciprocal recognition of capacities for the sustainability of health care.
The projects involve foreign researchers. Its members have spent several stays in foreign centres in Europe, America and Asia. They have published their results in quality indexed journals and books in prestigious publishing houses. Since 2004 they have been holding the Permanent Bioethics Seminar of the University of Valencia, which has already held more than 50 conferences.
The group has co-organised the I and II International Congress on Bioethics, held in Valencia in 2010 and 2012, with great success in terms of participation and international impact, and which continues to be held every two years.
The GIBUV currently coordinates the Ibero-American Network of Bioethics Research Groups - RIGIB, which has obtained recognition and funding from the Ibero-American University Association of Postgraduate Studies (AUIP). The participating entities are currently the following: Universitat de València, Spain (coordinator); Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Universida de Federal da Paraíba, Brazil; Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia; Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Serafín Ruiz de Zárate, de Villa Clara, Cuba; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, Nicaragua; Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru; Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal; Universidad de la República, Uruguay; Fundación Fernando Rincón Canaán, Universidad del Zulia-Escuela de Medicina, Venezuela. The Ibero-American network RIGIB is made up of 171 researchers. GIBUV receives foreign researchers for postdoctoral stays.
- To review the history and foundations of bioethics, as ethical references for analysing health care and clinical research.
- To analyse ethically the situation of vulnerable people, studying the role of Bioethics Committees and health legislation.
- To propose reciprocal recognition and the capabilities approach as the basis for intercultural bioethics, development and sustainability.
- To study the impact of new technologies on our lives and the contribution of ecological ethics for a better integration in our environment.
- To offer the bases and show the applications of the ethics of humour as a new ethical theory, highlighting its potential for the field of health.
- Bioethics committees, case analysis methodologies and health law
Role of Health Care Bioethics Committees, problems and functioning. Research Ethics Committees. National and Autonomous Region Committees. Methodologies for analysing bioethical cases. Analysis of health legislation related to bioethics.
- Ethics of humour
Humour as the basis of a new ethical theory applicable to professions, organisations and citizenship. The ethics of humour applied to the health field. Philosophy of humour. Good humour. Intercultural humour. Style of humour and autonomy in decision-making at the end of life.
- Health care and clinical research ethics
Ethics in the health professions. Shared decision-making with the patient. Violence in the consultation room. Consultation time. Errors. Informed consent. Capacity. Confidentiality. Quality of life. Ethics of family therapy and mediation. Accountability. Ethics in research.
- Mutual recognition, intercultural and global bioethics
Establishing reciprocal recognition as the core of intercultural and global bioethics. Relational sociology. Global citizenship, cosmopolitanism and deliberative politics. Immigration and bioethics. Reciprocal recognition between health professionals, patients and relatives.
- Bioethics in children, the elderly, functional diversity, mental health and the end of life
Care for people in situations of fragility and dependence. Bioethics in Paediatrics. Attitude towards children with functional diversity. Care of the elderly. Mental health. Suffering of patients and relatives at the end of life. Palliative care. Advance directives.
- Ethics at the beginning of life, ethics of genetics, neurosciences, nanotechnology, sport and human enhancement
Ethical problems at the beginning of life. Bioethics in the face of the new challenges of genetics, neurosciences and nanotechnology. Neuroethics, Neuroeducation, Neurotheology, Neurolaw, Neuropolitics. Nanoethics. Ethics of sport. Ethics of doping. Ethics of human enhancement.
- History and rationale of bioethics
Study of the history of bioethics and analysis of the main ethical theories on which bioethics is based, including: discourse ethics, narrative ethics, critical hermeneutics, feminist ethics, natural law, principles of bioethics, values, virtues and emotions.
- Sustainability of health care, public health and organisational ethics
Ethics in the use of health resources. Sustainability. Equity, efficiency and health quality. Public health. Knowledge and attitudes of the population regarding HIV. Preventive actions in one's own health. Ethics of health organisations. Ethics of pharmaceutical laboratories.
- Capabilities approach, development, education, film and bioethics
Capabilities approach and development bioethics. Development education. Moral development. Health education, especially for people with disabilities. Bioethics training. Mind, brain and education. Education of emotions. Training of volunteers. Cinema and bioethics.
- Ecological, animal, food and chemical ethics
Philosophy and political ecology, responsibility for future generations, intergenerational justice. Precautionary principle. Ethics of animals. Ethics of food production, distribution and consumption. Promotion of healthy nutrition. Bioethical issues related to chemistry.
- SIURANA APARISI, JUAN CARLOS
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- Coordinador/a de Programa de Doctorat
- MUÑOZ FERRIOL, MARIA AMPARO
- PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
- FERNANDEZ GARRIDO, JULIO JORGE
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- FERNANDEZ ZAMORA, JESUS ANTONIO
- PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
- TAMARIT LOPEZ, ISABEL
- PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
Contributors
- Vicenta Alborch Bataller - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- Joshua Beneite Martí - Universitat de València
- Fernando Calvo Rigual - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- María José Codina Felip - Universitat de València
- Montserrat Escribano Cárcel - Universitat de València
- Alfonso Fabregat Rosas - Generalitat Valenciana
- María del Carmen García López - Colegio Asunción de Nuestra Señora (Valencia)
- J. Elena Hortelano Martínez - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- Rosa María López Posteguillo - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- Luís Llorens Bañón - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- Yurena María Montoro Lozano - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- Cristina María Nebot Marzal - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- Elena Oliete Ramírez - Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología
- Remei Raga Marí - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- Esperanza Soler Montagud - Regional Health Department-Generalitat Valenciana
- Beatriz Valles González - Universidad Pedagógica Libertador (Venezuela)
- María Vázquez Costa - Self-employed
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- SIURANA APARISI, JUAN CARLOS
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- Coordinador/a de Programa de Doctorat
