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Jorge José Ferrer

Puerto Rico
Institution Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
Position Professor of Theology and Director of the School of Theology
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Email Address jorge_ferrer@pucpr.edu
Prior Educational Background
  • Doctorate in Theology (Th.D.), specialization: Moral Theology. Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, Spain
  • Master’s Degree (M.S.) in Pastoral Counseling, Loyola University, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Licentiate in Theology (S.T.L.), specialization: Fundamental Theology. Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
  • Bachelor in Theology (S.T.B.). Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). Philosophy Major. University of Saint Thomas, Houston, Texas
Recent Publications
  • Sole Author: Deber y deliberación, una invitación a la bioética, Mayagüez, Centro de Publicaciones Académicas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez, 2007 (Duty and Deliberation. An invitation to Bioethics). Second edition in preparation.
  • SIDA y bioética: de la autonomía a la justicia. Madrid, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 1997. (AIDS and Bioethics: From Autonomy to Justice. Published in Spanish.)
  • SIDA, ¿Condena o solidaridad?, Madrid, PPC. 1992. (AIDS, Condemnation or Solidarity? Published in Spanish.)
  • Co-Authored: Para fundamentar la bioética. Teorías y paradigmas teóricos en la bioética contemporánea. Madrid-Bilbao, Publicaciones de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas y Desclée de Brouwer, 2003. (Searching for the Foundations of Bioethics. Theories and Theoretical Paradigms in Contemporary Bioethics. Published in Spanish.) Second edition: 2005. Portuguese translation: Published by Loyola Press, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2005.
  • Articles: ¿Consensos en la bioética del final de la vida?: Más allá de la polarización: Perspectiva teológica 51, número 3 (2019) 443-460 DOI: 10.2911/217/68757v51n3p443/2019.
  • Research as a Restorative Practice: Catholic Social Teaching and the Ethics of Biomedical Research, in Lysaught M. T. & McCarthy M. (Eds.), Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice, Collegeville, Liturgical Press Academic, forthcoming, 363-375.
  • Las bioéticas principialistas, en Ferrer J. J., Lecaros J. A. & Molins R. (Eds.), Bioética: el pluralismo de la fundamentación, Madrid, Ediciones de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2016, 91-116.
  • Bioética y religión, en Ferrer J. J., Lecaros J. A. & Molins R. (Eds.), Bioética: el pluralismo de la fundamentación, Madrid, Ediciones de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2016, 393-418.
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