The book “Bioethics, Law and Medicine”, discusses pertinent scientific changes, from the second half of the 20th century to the current days, which have produced and still instigate several ethical discussions and transformations of social behavior. This is the work of Prof. Caludio Cohen and Prof. Reinaldo Ayer de Oliveira, both from the Legal Medicine, Medical Ethics, Social and Occupational Medicine Department of the Medical School of the Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), released in December 2019, by the Manole Publishing House.
The book is organized in four parts: Introduction to Bioethics, Bioethics and early human life; Bioethics and daily life; and Bioethics and Health. Besides, bioethics is presented in an integrated, broad, transdisciplinary and universal perspective, in 19 titles and 69 chapters, written in collaboration with experts, from the plurality of knowledge and experience. “In a way, the selection of the themes represents the school of thought of FMUSP relating to medical ethics and bioethics in the courses offered by the Bioethics Discipline in the undergraduate, graduate and specialization courses”, declared Prof. Reinaldo Ayer de Oliveira.
Prof. Claudio Cohen acts in the area for years and, for him, it was a satisfaction to realize there is a larger number of people working on the theme. “When Prof. Marco Segre and I have published the book ‘Bioethics’, in 1995, we received the Jabuti Award, it shows we have believed in it from the very beginning and it was worth it to see the results: the ethical thinking has spread and there is a complexity of subjects we have approached in this new book”, declared Prof. Cohen.
In Bioethics, Law and Medicine, the intersection between these fields drives the reader to important reflections, based on the scientific revolutions, in ethical and moral issues of relationships, legal implications and behavioral alteration, which generates multidisciplinary knowledge about life and how can could humanity go. The book took four years to be elaborated and has as target audience students and professionals of the related fields. For Prof. Reinaldo de Oliveira it is “a feeling of duty fulfilled with the social part of FMUSP in disseminating knowledge and experiences out of the academic environment”.
