Bioethical Collection and Health Rights
Through specific monographs we study in greater depth the ethical problems arising from the application of advances in science and medicine. Aspects as relevant as patient autonomy, informed consent, doctor's rights and data protection, amongst others, have been the subject of these very practical monographs.
Titles in the Collection
 Vol. 17 - Challenges in public health: Rights and Duties of citizensJavier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
2011
As professor Mayor Zaragoza states in the prologue of the latest work of Fundación salud 2000, Retos en salud pública: derechos y deberes de los ciudadanos, when he refers to the importance of public health nowadays,“ the major task is to extend the progress”, “the big challenge is to share”, “the transformations are unpostponable”.
The new Public Health Law, which was adopted at the end of last Legislature, provides universal health care and sets new organizational bases trying to attend to the needs and new challenges.
The referred law will invite Spanish specialists with international prestige to reflect on the prevention science of main causes of death in Spain, such as cardiovascular and oncological diseases. The first part of the meeting was devoted to the analysis of the latest developments and news about the prevention of those pathologies, and also about neurological and inherited metabolic diseases, many of them fulfilling the criteria of “orphan diseases”.
At the same time, the public health, characterized by the supremacy of general interest over the particular, raises many legal and bioethical disputes. The second part of the meeting will include issues such as transparency, disclosure, privacy, rights and duties of citizens in this area. These subjects, sometimes, must support the administrative action and the responsibility with the future generations by the intergenerational solidarity. In addition, it will address the link between public health and Social Corporate Responsibility of Pharmaceutical Companies.
 Vol. 16 - Sexual and Reproductive Health in Spain
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán 2010
The Organic Law 2 / 2010 of sexual and reproductive health, and abortion, invites reflection to leading experts on the current state of science, the reality of Spanish society and the future prospects for contraception and assisted human reproduction. In this role devotes his attention to the first part of this work, which also includes a chapter on molecular biological aspects of mother-embryo dialogue that occurs in the origin of life.
The second part, dunk in the bioethical and legal analysis of these materials, contains a practical comment on the above law (known as the abortion law reform "), including a comparison with the situation in neighboring countries, and Attention is also given to issues such as conscientious objection and health problems of children mature toward sexuality, the religious prospective (Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam and Judaism) of contraception, abortion and reproductive techniques, and the importance of movement Feminist in the development of these issues.
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 Vol. 15 - Genetic Medicine Clinic in the century XXI
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán 2010
The work has two distinct parts. The first contains a tour of the state of the science and future prospects in each of the different phases of life that can occur in genetic medicine clinic (preconception, embryonic, prenatal and postnatal care, the latter both children and adults) as well as about the situation and expectations of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, all so informative and exposed by the best clinicians working this field in Spain.
The second part addresses the legal perspective of bioethics and genetic medicine clinic, with special emphasis on the scope of autonomy of the citizen and the responsibility as the key ethical imperative that has to preside over this medical specialty. This section of the work includes a final chapter on the horizon of human genetic enhancement and eugenics problem, which we review the trends of thought and most important ethical theories of our day, from the position of so-called "bioconservadores" to the known as the "transhumanist" or supporters of improvement, including also the religious vision.
In short, this is an indispensable work for anyone who wants to know the true extent today of genetic medicine clinic and know where we are going in this exciting field of science.
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 Vol. 14 - Preliminary investigations in Spain: Bioethical, legal and practical aspects
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán2008
La obra aborda la problemática de las instrucciones previas, voluntades anticipadas o testamento vital y está elaborada con un propósito científico pero, al mismo tiempo, didáctico, pues sin desatender un estudio a fondo de los problemas bioéticos y jurídicos en este terreno, trata de captar el interés de lectores más allá del mundo sanitario con un lenguaje divulgativo. Precisamente, ésta es una novedad del libro respecto a los títulos anteriores de la Colección, porque no sólo se dirige a los profesionales sanitarios, sino también a los ciudadanos interesados en estas cuestiones.
La obra se estructura en 5 capítulos en los que se realiza un análisis detallado de las diferentes corrientes de pensamiento ético y filosófico que rodean el final de la vida en relación con la perspectiva clínica, así como un estudio del origen y la evolución histórica del concepto de instrucciones previas y una descripción detalllada de la situación legal de las mismas con una recopilación de los casos judiciales habidos hasta la fecha. La experiencia de las Comunidades Autónomas y un capítulo centrado en los aspectos clínicos de los cuidados paliativos y las voluntades anticipadas completan la monografía.
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Vol. 13 - Biomedical Research in Spain. Bioethical, legal and scientific aspects.Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán2008
This book covers a comprehensive analysis of the different aspects surrounding the 2007 Biomedical Research Act, one of the most important legal milestones in the Spanish legislative arena with regards to the medical care field. The monograph, throughout its nine chapters, delves into the Act’s three main aspects: the strictly legal one: with construction of the different legal concepts; the scientific one: essential starting point and the bioethical one: with a focus on any aspects related to possible value conflicts unravelled by the application of the Act. In short, a book which fundamentally aims to improve understanding of the legal framework of biomedical research in Spain and that will undoubtedly have a serious impact on our country’s scientific and legal scenarios.
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 Vol. 12 - Doctor's rights in clinical relationships.
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
2006
This monography analyses the doctor's rights in all aspects pertaining to the healthcare act that surrounds his/her professional activity. There is a detailed study of professional freedom, professional prestige, conscientious objection and professional risks, among other points.
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 Vol. 11 - Health Data and Genetic Data. Their protection in the European Union and in Spain.
Javier Sánchez-Caro and Fernando Abellán2004
This work makes an in-depth analysis of the problems of data protection in the health field treated in depth, combining general regulations with specific health regulations and specifically contemplating the particularities of genetic data. It also incorporates an interesting account of real cases ruled by the Courts and by data protection agencies.
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Vol. 10 - Patient Rights and Duties (Law 41/2003 of November 14: informed consent, medical history, intimacy and prior instructions).
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
2003
This publication analyses the new key points of the patient-doctor relationship stemming from the entry into force of the basic law on patients' autonomy (law 41/2003 of 14 November: informed consent, clinical history, privacy and prior instructions).
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Vol. 9 – Telemedicine and Health Data Protection (Legal and Ethical Aspects).
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
2002
The first work published in Spain regarding the ethical and legal aspects that arise in the doctor-patient relationship in the practice of telemedicine. It also includes a study on health data protection.
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Vol. 8 - Recklessness and negligence in the medical profession.
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
2001
This is a study of the different planes in which medical professional responsibility is developed, with special attention on recklessness and other criminal figures related to health professionals. The work also includes a selection of relevant court cases.
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Vol. 7 - Medical Ethics and Deontology.
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
2000
It is a compilation of the basic principles of medical deontology, its social function and the legal value of its codes. In addition, it contains different aspects of deontology with respect to patients (including an analysis of the Spanish code of the Medical Association).
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Vol. 6 - Medical History.
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
2000
This work analyses the concept of clinical history, laws regulating it, the documents that it comprises, the problems of access to data contained in the medical history and those of its conservation and cancellation.
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Vol. 5 - Informed Consent – Third Part (Annexes).
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
1999
This publication incorporates the International declarations and Spanish regulatory texts regarding informed consent, as well as a selection of court cases dealing with this issue.
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Vol. 4 - Informed Consent – Second Part.
Javier Sánchez-Caro and Fernando Abellán
1999
Informed consent in Spanish Law is the topic of this publication, including its origin, legal regulation, problems in the evaluation of patient capacity, aspects relating to the information provided, as well as the conclusions of the analysis carried out in all of these.
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Vol. 3 - Informed Consent – First Part.
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán
1999
This publication spans the Legal and ethical foundations on the theory of informed consent, its essential elements and exceptions to its provision admitted in the clinical field.
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Vol. 2 - Human Reproduction and the Law – Monograph.
Javier Sánchez-Caro y Fernando Abellán1998
Starting from international regulations and the constitutional precepts that deal with the protection of human life, the regulation of assisted reproduction in Spain is dealt with from its different perspectives: clinical-health care, gamete and embryo donors, research.
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Vol. 1 - Human Reproduction, Pediatric Endocrinology, Immunology, Neurology and the Law.Sánchez-Caro, J Abellán, F.1998
After an introduction on the relationship between ethics and the law, a general view is provided of the most common occurrences of civil and criminal professional responsibility in the health field with special reference to the indicated medical specialties.
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