[New Entry by Gustavo Ortiz Millán, Florencia Luna, and Eduardo Rivera López on March 13, 2026.]
“Latin American bioethics” is an ambiguous label. It can refer to bioethics as practiced in Latin American countries or by Latin American bioethicists (even if they do not reside in the region), to non-Latin Americans who have been trained or work in the region, or to a peculiarly “Latin American” way of approaching the discipline. The discussion is not only semantic, but has some meta-philosophical or even political implications. Obviously, the philosophers discussed in this entry are Latin American, in the…

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