Contexto geopolítico, globalización, crisis civilizatoria y paz en Colombia / Geopolitical context, globalization, civilizing crisis, and peace in Colombia

El presente artículo, trata de confrontar los fundamentos e ideas fuerza que caracterizan la globalización como expresión hegemonizada del modelo de desarrollo capitalista en su fase actual, de corte financiero especulativo y con énfasis predominantemente extractivista, con uno de los factores característicos y determinares de la búsqueda y construcción de idearios e imaginarios de paz en Colombia.

This article aims to compare the foundations and ideas, which characterize globalization as a hegemonic expression of the model of the capitalist development,in its current state, of a speculative and financial type and predominantly extractive, with one of the characteristic and determining factors for the search and the construction of ideologies and imaginaries of peace in Colombia.

The establishment of research ethics consultation services (RECS): an emerging research resource.

Emphasis on translational research to facilitate progression from the laboratory into the community also creates a dynamic in which ethics and social policy questions and solutions are ever pressing. In response, academic institutions are creating Research Ethics Consultation Services (RECS). All Clinical Translational Science Award institutions were surveyed in early 2010 to determine which institutions have a RECS in operation and what is their composition and function. Of the 46 institutions surveyed, 33 (70%) have a RECS. Only 15 RECS have received any consult requests in the last year. Issues that are common among these relatively nascent services include relationships with institutional oversight committees, balancing requestor concerns about confidentiality with research integrity and human subjects protection priorities, tracking consult data and outcomes, and developing systems for internal evaluation. There is variability in how these issues are approached. It will be important to be attentive to the institutional context to develop an appropriate approach. Further data about the issues raised by requestors and the recommendations provided are necessary to build a community of scholars who can navigate and resolve ethical issues encountered along the translational research pathway.

Ethics been very good to us.

This commentary asks whether ongoing efforts to accredit, certify, and credential hospital ethics consultants are nothing other than an illegal restraint on trade masquerading as an effort to protect the public from harm.

What is wrong with "ethics for sale"? An analysis of the many issues that complicate the debate about conflicts of interests in bioethics.

This article addresses all of the issues involved in the debate about whether or not bioethicists should be paid by private biomedical companies to perform consultations. These issues include the following: differentiation of this role from bioethicists' other roles, an analysis of to whom bioethicists owe a duty, consideration of what bioethicists are "selling," whether bioethicists should be allowed to get paid, when payment becomes problematic, and whether consulting fee arrangements should be regulated. The author often compares bioethicists' relationship to the companies to bioethicists' other relationships, as well as to professional relationships in other fields, such as law and accounting.