**Meet the editors**

José Antonio Morales-González carried out his undergraduate rotating internship year at the Hospital de Jesús, México (1995), graduating as Surgeon Physician in 1997 from the FES-Iztacala, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He engaged in doctoral studies in biological sciences at the UNAM (2001). Dr. Morales-Gonzalez has been awarded diverse recogni-

tions: the *Alfonso Caso* Medal for Academic Merit by the UNAM (2004); distinguished by the National System of Researchers (SNI) National Researcher level 2 (2017–2020). He is an author of 47 internationally published articles, in addition to more than 700 citations to their publications. He is also an editor and a coordinator of 28 specialized books. Dr. Morales-González is a full-time titular professor-researcher in Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México.

María Eugenia Aguilar Nájera is a doctor of Veterinary Medicine in the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco. She is a certified specialist in the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science in CONE-VET. She obtained her MSc degree in Bioethics at the Escuela Superior de Medicina del IPN (ESM Medicine School). She is a member of the Academia Nacional

Mexicana de Bioética (Mexican National Academy of Bioethics (ANMB)) and a member of the FESC and ESM IACUCs. Dr. Nájera is a professor in the Academy of Bioethics of the ESM-IPN and a manager of the IPN-ESM Animal Facility. She is also a coordinator of the Master in Bioethics Program of the IPN. She participated as a speaker and an instructor in the National and International Seminars and Congresses: IPN, UNAM, UANL, AMCAL, Secretaría de Salud, ANMB, Colegio de Médicos Veterinarios del DF, Hospital Militar, Cámara de Diputados del DF, AALAS (USA), ASO-CHICAL (Chile), AVECAL (Venezuela), and INDICASAT AIP (Panama and Uruguay).

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Bioethics and Health 1**

Hellmann

Chapter 2 **Bioethics in Critical Care Patients 27**

Alfonso Martínez Cornejo

Marta Elena Hernández Caballero

**Menopause 57**

**Section 2 Bioethics and Education 85**

Chapter 5 **Bioethics in Education 87**

Chapter 1 **The Ethical Duty of Physicians to Strengthen Their Own Immunization and Childhood Vaccination 3**

Chapter 3 **Ethical Considerations in Research and Medical Care of**

Chapter 4 **Bioethics and Palliative Care in Primary Health Care 75**

Morales and Héctor Manuel Manzanilla-Granados

Chapter 6 **Russian School of Bioethics: History and the Present† 101**

Bruno Rodolfo Schlemper Junior, Vilma Beltrame and Fernando

Miguel Ángel García García, María Ángeles Rosero Arenas and

Claudia Camelia Calzada Mendoza, Liliana Anguiano Robledo, Gabriela Lugo Martínez, Carlos Alberto Jiménez Zamarripa and

Juliana Dias Reis Pessalacia, Sandra Pinto, Juliana Guimarães Lima Munis, Jacqueline Resende Boaventura and Adriano Menis Ferreira

Ángel Morales-González, Judith Margarita Tirado-Lule, Alejandro González-Cisneros, Edgar Omar López-De-León, Alberto Sanchez-

Nezhmetdinova Farida Tansykovna and Guryleva Marina Yuryevna
