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.
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.
The purpose of the economy and of business is to satisfy human needs with quality and justice. Business ethics understands that its responsibilities are not merely economic or legal, but also social and environmental.
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.
Analysis of the different variants of Conceptual History in both the continental and Anglo-Saxon spheres. Examination of its ognitive and critical ideological value. Elaboration of a stratigraphy of the era of progress and the velociferous present, relating it to theories in vogue.
In the last decades there has been a noticeable increase in the conceptual and methodological resources available to the scientist. Among those that are more widely applied it is worth mentioning the algorithms on model selection, Bayesian statistics, causal inference strategies from probabilities/frequencies, computer simulation, or the articulation of mechanistic models.
The general aim of this line of research is to revisit the epistemological questions traditionally addressed by the philosophy of science (experimentation, confirmation, explanation, realism/anti-realism, objectivity & values,…) in the light of recent resources available to scientific practitioners.
Critical hermeneutics offers us a method of applying ethics that combines the deductive and inductive dimensions, the Kantian and Aristotelian traditions. It tries to understand the context of application, but it also has a universalist theory that can serve as a critical parameter.
Analysis of the syllogistic typology of discourses, description of the models of the world they present, study of the conflicting relations between the different polysystems of a given social context (comparative relations between texts).
For the improvement of today's democracies, it is important to go to the roots and build a radical democracy, taking the best of the participatory, social and liberal democratic traditions and deepening the exercise of deliberation. Civil society can participate from various spheres.
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.
The aim of education is for pupils to learn to know, to live together and to be fair. In a special way, civic-ethical education contributes to educating in values for living together in pluralistic societies.
Ethics tries to clarify what morality is, how it is founded and how ethical principles are applied to everyday life. Political philosophy asks about political obligation, drawing on concepts such as power, authority, legitimacy, consent and mutual recognition.
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.
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.
Science and technology can cause great harm to human beings, society or the environment if they are not developed with ethical reflection. It is important to take responsibility for their consequences, and to develop an ecological ethic for sustainability.
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.
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.
The ethics of human development understands development as a process that takes into account the unfolding of human capabilities of the entire population, the equitable distribution of socially produced wealth and respect for ecological balance.
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.
Neuroscience ethics develops an ethical framework for regulating conduct in neuroscientific research. The neuroscience of ethics refers to the impact of neuroscientific knowledge on our understanding of ethics itself. Neuropolitics analyses the brains of voters.
This line of research will focus primarily on contemporary challenges to the liberal democratic model, analysing essential values such as justice, freedom, human rights and addressing issues such as political participation, contemporary theories of justice.
Study of classical Greco-Latin theatre in its different genres and its survival in the Western tradition. Creation of meeting spaces between academics and professionals in the performing arts. Bringing the results closer to society.
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.
Designing the features of democratic citizenship is central to ethics and politics. To achieve this, it is useful to analyse theories of citizenship and models of democracy, arising from philosophical traditions, which help us to put experience into concepts and guide everyday moral and political praxis.
Knowledge of the theories of justice defended throughout history allows us to design an idea of universalist justice that is appropriate to our times, to achieve peaceful coexistence between members of different cultures and traditions, and to confront the phenomenon of globalisation.
Analysis of philosophical discourses on the differences between the sexes, the modernity-postmodernity debate in contemporary feminisms, interpretation of the paradoxes of the Enlightenment and study of the relationship between citizenship and gender.
