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Teaching Bioethics in Ecuador

July 14, 2006
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In March 2006 I had an opportunity to teach a course on bioethics at the Seminario Semisudamerica (hereafter “Semisud”).  This was an important learning experience for me as well as for my students.  I found that ministerial students who came from Ecuador, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia were keenly interested in the themes of bioethics.  I was quite pleased to have as my translator a close friend and colleague Dr. Miguel Endara.  This workshop presentation shall focus on (1) A brief update on the abortion debate in Ecuador and Latin America; (2) the possibilities and difficulties of Evangelical and Roman Catholic co-operation on life issues; (3) the problem of poverty and the temptations of first-world exploitation of the poor via “human experimentation” and “human guinea pigs” in the third-world context; and (4) Exploration of existing opportunities for U.S. scholars to teach bioethics in Ecuador and Latin America.

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"bioethics, education, teaching "