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MANAGER
Marcelo Palacios

EDITORIAL
BOARD

EDITOR
International Society of
Bioethics Foundation

ADVERTISING AND COMMUNICATION
CGC Consultoría y
Gestión Cultural

DESIGN AND
PAGE LAYOUT
Ricardo Cano &
Asociados (RC&A)

PREPINTING
Fotomecánica Principado

EDITION
Publishing Service
of the University of Oviedo

December 1998                                                                   Number 1
ISSN: 1139-5621

CONTENTS

A Worldwide Society for the Century of Bioethics
Marcelo Palacios, President of the SIBI Scientific Committee

The Town Council of Gijón supports the International Society of Bioethics
Vicente Álvarez Areces, Mayor of Gijón

Bioethics and University
Julio Rodríguez, Rector of the University of Oviedo

Scientific Opinion

Santiago Grisolía
Valencian Foundation of Advanced Studies
Juán Ramón Lacadena
University of Madrid (Complutense)
Amos Shapira
Incumbent of the Lebowski Chair. University of Tel-Aviv
Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis
President and Founder of the Biopolitics International Organization (BIO)
Alain Pompidou
Member of the European Parliament University René Descartes, President of STOA

Documents

Bioethics Convention of Asturias (Council of Europe)
Protocol on Human Cloning (Council of Europe)

Universal Declaration on the Human Genome (UNESCO)

Charter of Principles of the International Society of Bioethics (SIBI)