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Bioethics Research and Study Centre

Team

  • Dr. Albert Balaguer Santamaría
  • Sr. Andrés Aristayeta Blas
  • Sra. Cristina Monforte Royo

Moving towards the end of life

  • Attitudes and practices in handling life support therapy in Neonatal Intensive Care Units.
  • The adult before death and the desire to accelerate towards it: causes, frequency, prevention and handling.

New technologies and their bioethical repercussions

  • Use of stem cells in clinical trials for regenerative medicine. Systematic revision of international research activities.

Other related fields of interest

  • Bioethics and paediatrics: problems which are relevant due to their frequency or importance in primary care and hospitalisation. Areas of interest in research.
  • Scientific information: synthesis and communication.
  • Identification of the ethical problems which are relevant due to their frequency or importance in primary healthcare consultations in adults. A vision from a nursing and patient perspective.
  • Communication with the patient and family: the balance between providing hope and the right to know the truth.
  • Humanisation of care in health sciences.
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