PRESENTATION
The SIBI journal is one of the main channels of communication and exchange of insights and experiences within the International Society of Bioethics. Its Editorial Board guarantees the quality of its contents by assessing the validity and rigour of the articles we receive. Issue No. 0 served as a means to present ourselves. From now onwards, the journal will have a defined layout and will be published on a biannual basis, first in Spanish and English, and then -we hope so-, also in French.
The SIBI journal is currently published on a biannual basis in Spanish and English, though in the future we are planning to publish it three times a year and also in French. It has a full- coloured layout. Its contents are determined by the Scientific Committee through its EDITORIAL BOARD, which actuallyis made up of the following members:
-Santiago Grisolía (Spain)
-Salvador Darío Bergel (Argentina)
-Margarita Salas (Spain)
-Amos Shapira (Israel)
-Carlos Romeo Casabona (Spain)
-Juán Ramón Lacadena Calero (Spain)
-Linda Nielsen (Denmark)
-José Antonio Abrisqueta (Spain)
-Helga Kuhse (Australia)
-Daniel Piedra Herrera (Cuba)
-Jaime Escobar Triana (Colombia
-Françoise Shenfield (United Kingdom)
-Jayapaul Azariah (India)
The status of our Co-operating Members of SIBI Journal is a reliable indicator of the impact and general acceptance of the SIBI at all levels: public, academic and biomedical/environmental. Therefore, apart from being entitled to receiving the journal periodically, their contributions are a symbol of the growing awareness of the importance of Bioethics in the threshold of the 21st Century, which will undoubtedly be the Century of Bioethics.
Our Journal co-operators are the people, groups or institutions which may wish to support Bioethics work, help us enhance the quality of the SIBI journal and make it last in time. Being one of our co-operators means agreeing with the aims and activities of the International Society of Bioethics and fostering the development of this discipline.
Co-operators must pay at least 60 € a year.
We are giving the first steps of an ambitious journey. Our modest, though firm, aspiration is to keep our bearings, to maintain a constructive spirit and to make it last in time. Bioethics is a young discipline which must be collectively built up, and which needs its own language, a fundamental tool undergoing constant updating. The SIBI journal would like to thank in advance all those accepting this challenge, -which, due to its nature, will probably never be utterly satisfying-, those taking part in our sincere and open will of communicating with each other, and those making non-coincident views come closer (by means of reasoned dialogue and mutual respect), so as to yield a positive and universal intellectual product.