Diccionari de bioètica - Presentació
© Author: Government of Catalonia. Ministry of Health; TERMCAT, Centre for Terminology
© Publisher: TERMCAT, Centre for Terminology , 2019-2023
In collaboration with: Bioethics Committee of Catalonia
The online dictionary Diccionari de bioètica (‘Dictionary of bioethics’) gathers 742 terms classified thematically in the following areas: general concepts; rights and duties; health care; reproduction; end of life; cells, tissues and organs; genetics; research; mental health; public health; technology and artificial intelligence, and ecoethics. Every term includes its designations in Catalan, equivalents in Spanish and English, a definition in Catalan and, in most cases, additional notes to expand the information of the definition.
Bioethics is the plural and interdisciplinary study of the ethical implications involved in the progress of life and health sciences. The terminological basis of bioethics is very diverse, and includes terms from different origins, terms with a large history and evolution, and terms used within unlike perspectives or by different schools of thought. For this reason, it is important to have a dictionary with the terminology used in bioethics which establishes for each term the most widely accepted definition.
Born of an initiative of the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia, this dictionary has been elaborated by TERMCAT, the Centre for Catalan Terminology, and the Ministry of Health. A large number of experts in bioethics have participated in the redaction and revision of all terms.
As the domain of life and health sciences is in continuous development, this dictionary has been designed as a work open to future updates. For this reason, a procedure has been established to describe the mechanism of periodical revision of the online dictionary (see the document Dictionary update).
In fact, the 2023 update represents an expansion of the work published in 2019. The main novelties are the addition of a new thematic area dedicated to technology and artificial intelligence, with terms that may have ethical implications in the field of health (biaix d’automatització, cíborg, comprovador de símptomes, robòtica mèdica, sistema d’ajuda a la decisió, etc.), and the addition of twenty terms from various subject areas (biaix de gènere, cèl·lula mare pluripotent induïda, deshumanització, dol, eutanasiar, etc.). Small changes have also been made to the definitions or notes of about fifteen entries from the first edition.
Clicking on "Consulta de termes" ('Term search'), terms can be looked up in three ways: using the alphabetical indexes (there is a different index for each language), using the thematic index, or making simple or advanced searches in the upper space "Text de la consulta" ('Text search') in any of the dictionary languages.
Work team
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Concept diagram
Bibliography
Other documents related to the project:
Infography “Temes i termes de la bioètica” (‘Bioethics subjects and terms’)
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CATALUNYA. DEPARTAMENT DE SALUT; TERMCAT, CENTRE DE TERMINOLOGIA. Diccionari de bioètica [en línia]. Barcelona: TERMCAT, Centre de Terminologia, cop. 2019-2023. (Diccionaris en Línia)
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