Florencia Luna
Florencia Luna (born May 16, 1962)[1] is an Argentinian doctor of philosophy with specialization in bioethics.
Luna works at CONICET as principal researcher and directs the bioethics program at FLACSO in Argentina.[2] She is the principal investigator for the Training Program in Research Ethics in the Americas bioethics project at FLACSO.[3] Luna is a professor and has taught internationally at universities such as the University of Barcelona (Spain), Princeton University, and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.[4]
In 1996, she founded and was editor of Argentine bioethics journal Perspectivas Bioéticas (“Bioethical Perspectives”).[1][4][5] In 2016, she was designated the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics.[6]
Her previous roles include president of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) and member of the Steering Committee of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research. Luna was an advisory member for the WHO in the Department of Tropical Diseases Research (TDR). She has been a member and contact for several international scientific organizations.[2]
Education
Luna attended Columbia University for her Masters of Arts before receiving her PhD in philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires.[5]
Published Works
Luna has articles published in both national and international journals and has co-authored several articles and books. She has written several books.[2] Some of her works include:
- Bioethics and Vulnerability: A Latin American View (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2006).[2][7]
- Challenges for assisted reproduction and secondary infertility in Latin America (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2014)[8]
- Ideal and Nonideal Theories: The Challenges of Decision-Making in an Imperfect World (Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World. New York: Springer. 2021)[9]
- Identifying and evaluating layers of vulnerability – a way forward (Developing World Bioethics, 2018)[10]
Awards
In 2006, Luna was awarded the Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the Konex Prize for ethics in Argentina.[2][4]
References
- ^ a b "Florencia Luna | Fundación Konex". web.archive.org. 2016-03-12. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ a b c d e "Florencia Luna | The HIV Prevention Trials Network". www.hptn.org. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ "Training Program in Research Ethics in the Americas - Fogarty International Center @ NIH". Fogarty International Center. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ a b c "Florencia Luna". Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ a b "Florencia Luna (Latin American School of Social Sciences) (2016-03-22)". Centre de recherche en éthique (in French). 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ "WHOCC - WHO Collaborating Centres". apps.who.int. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ Luna, Florencia (2006). Bioethics and Vulnerability: A Latin American View. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2073-3.
- ^ Luna, Florencia; Wolf, Allison B. (2014-03). "Challenges for assisted reproduction and secondary infertility in Latin America". IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. 7 (1): 3–27. doi:10.3138/ijfab.7.1.3. ISSN 1937-4585.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Luna, Florencia (2021), Victor, Elizabeth; Guidry-Grimes, Laura K. (eds.), "Ideal and Nonideal Theories: The Challenges of Decision-Making in an Imperfect World", Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics, vol. 139, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 17–40, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72503-7_2, ISBN 978-3-030-72502-0, retrieved 2024-11-19
- ^ Luna, Florencia (2019-06). "Identifying and evaluating layers of vulnerability – a way forward". Developing World Bioethics. 19 (2): 86–95. doi:10.1111/dewb.12206. ISSN 1471-8731. PMC 6353708. PMID 30058768.
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