The relevance of an ethics committee in a higher education institution in the health area: The experience of ESS-P.PORTO

• Author(s): Monteiro, Pedro ; Tavares, Diana ; Cruz, Agostinho ; Cabral, Ana Paula ; Machado, Alberto ; Curado, Henrique ; Sousa, Helena ; Faria, Isabel ; Gonçalves, Maria João ; Sousa, Maria ; Marques, António ; Lopes, Paula ; Prudêncio, Cristina
• Date: 2022
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/25478
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Ethics Committees
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): REPOSITÓRIO P.PORTO

Description

Ethics Committees arose as consequence of medical-scientific advances made in an eminent demand to extend morality and ethics to the field of biomedicine, to expand and preserve autonomy and dignity of human beings. The Ethics Committee (EC) of Escola Superior de Saúde (ESS) was born in February 2011. The importance for this unit of P.PORTO in having such a committee, for ethical and not legal imperative, came to be corroborated by law (Decree-Law no. 80/2018).