Irene Gómez

Irene Gómez Franco is a full-time Professor of Philosophy at the University of Girona, associated Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Visiting Researcher since 2010 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is a member of the Ethics and Biosafety Research Committee of the University of Girona.She […]

Angel Puyol

Angel Puyol (Barcelona, 1968) is Professor of Ethics in the Department of Philosophy of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1996 and 1999), New York University (2008) and La Sapienza (2015). His lines of research are bioethics and theories of justice. […]

Angel Puyol

Angel Puyol (Barcelona, 1968) és catedràtic d’Ètica al Departament de Filosofia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Ha estat Visiting Scholar a la London School of Economics and Political Science (1996 i 1999), la New York University (2008) i La Sapienza, Roma (2015). Les seves línies de recerca són la bioètica i les teories de […]

Iris Parra Jounou

Iris Parra Jounou holds a degree in Nursing by the University of Barcelona and a degree in Liberal Arts by the Pompeu Fabra University. She has a postgraduate diploma in Prehospital emergency care and a master in Classical and contemporary philosophy. Currently, she is a senior PhD student in the Philosophy department of the Autonomous […]

I INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHILOSPHY OF PUBLIC HEALTH Barcelona, 5th – 7th May 2016

Philosophy of epidemiology, both in the epistemological aspect and the ethical one, is one of the emerging subjects of Philosophy today. In recent years, traditional epidemiology or epidemiology focused on biological factors of diseases has become social epidemiology (Berkman and Kawachi, 2000), which states that there are often social causes of natural causes (causes of […]