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NOVOA, Edgar. COMMISSIONER BIOETHICS REVISITED. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.1, pp.18-33. ISSN 1657-4702.

The article proposes to recognize the importance that the named commissioning bioethics has been to the consolidation of bioethics as a field of knowledge, research and social intervention. It emphasizes the historical conditions that led to the establishment of the healthcare ethics committees and research ethics committees, which subsequently lead to the creation of committees, councils or national and international commissions. The commissioning bioethics has contributed the development of legislation, public policies, building a culture of deliberative and informed public discussion, is part of the bioethics as a social reform movement.

Palabras clave : Bioethics; bioethics commissioner; politics.

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