Applied Ethics from Medicine to Humor

Adela Cortina holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Valencia, Spain, and Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the same university. She did postgraduate studies at the Universities of Munich and Frankfurt. She is the director of the ÉTNOR Foundation (Foundation for Business and Organization Ethics), and since 2008 she is a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain. Among her numerous publications, the most important are Razón comunicativa y responsabilidad solidaria (1985), Ética minima. Introducción a la Filosofía Práctica (1986), Ética Aplicada y Democracia Radical (1993), Ética de la empresa: claves para una nueva cultura empresarial (1994), Por una ética del consumo (2002), Las fronteras de la persona. El valor de los animales, la dignidad de los humanos (2009), Neuroética y neuropolítica: sugerencias para la educación moral (2011), Public Reason and Applied Ethics (2016), Aporophobia: Why We Reject the Poor Instead of Helping Them (2022). Mauricio Correa Casanova holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Valencia (Spain) and specialized in Moral and Political Philosophy, and in Applied Ethics. He was an ADVENIAT fellow (Bischöfliche Aktion, Germany) and Visiting Researcher at Étnor Foundation (Foundation for Business and Organization Ethics). He is an associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Applied Ethics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and is co-founder and coordinator of the Latin American Network of Applied Ethics (founded in Lima, 2016). Among his publications are the books La tolerancia liberal. Una aproximación a la propuesta ética y política de John Rawls (2013), Nuevas teorías sobre la tolerancia y el pluralismo. Del aborto a la sociedad multicultural (2015), and Chile: la transformación ética (2017). He is also co-editor of the books La riqueza ética de las profesiones (2010), Ética en Geografía (2018), and Ética aplicada. Perspectivas desde Latinoamérica (2019).

• Foreword.- Biomedical Ethics.- Development Ethics.- Ecological Ethics.- Economic Ethics.- Business Ethics. - Ethics of the Professions.- Neuroethics.- Ethics of Sport.- Ethics of the City.- Ethics of Humor.