Debate article
Bioethics in biomedicine in the context of a global higher education area
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* Corresponding author: Antonio Liras aliras@hotmail.com
Department of Physiology, School of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
International Archives of Medicine 2010, 3:10 doi:10.1186/1755-7682-3-10
Published: 11 June 2010Abstract
The University is tasked with drawing together, transmitting and maintaining knowledge, while creating an area where the ethical "sense" required for working in the field of Biology and Biomedicine can be provided. Although scientific knowledge is present on an overwhelming scale in nature and, therefore, its discovery is unceasing, this does not mean that, as a human being, the researcher has no limitations. It is Bioethics that sets this limit. The successful spreading of knowledge, therefore, which is proclaimed with the creation of a Global Higher Education Area, should also pursue the establishment of the bioethical principles necessary for the credibility of science and its progress so that the society that it promotes and sustains becomes a reality.