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Research, training and dialogue in bioethics since 1988. The Centro de Estudos de Bioética publishes the Revista Portuguesa de Bioética and brings together a network of regional hubs in Portugal and Brazil.
Revista Portuguesa de Bioética
Issue no. 30
Epigenética, Fim de Vida, Reprodução Assistida, Neuroética, Ética Organizacional, Bioética Ambiental, Ética Parabiológica
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Law, Politics & Society
A necessary review of Brazilian legal education: reflections on academic processes in the face of the reality of generative artificial intelligence.
Brazilian legal education faces the challenge of integrating generative artificial intelligence without abandoning critical thinking, ethics, and humanistic training. More than adopting tools, it must prepare jurists to understand, regulate, and question the technology already transforming law.
Innovation & Technology
Five beneficences for a post-biological era
Post-biological beneficence does not grant moral status to every machine. Instead, it proposes a bioethics capable of addressing non-biological systems that already shape human life, agency and vulnerability. From instrumental benefit to artificial relationships, critical infrastructures, autonomous agency and possible artificial welfare, bioethics must guide technology before harms become irreversible.
Health, Life & Autonomy
Listening to Control? AI, Biosecurity, and the New Limits of Physiological Surveillance
When ordinary physiological signals, such as coughing, are analysed by AI, public health moves closer to security, surveillance, and institutional control. The bioethical question is no longer simply whether the technology works, but who is allowed to listen to the body, interpret its signals, and act upon them.
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