Global Bioethics and Human Rights

Contemporary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Teays, Wanda; Renteln, Alison Dundes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The ethical issues we face in healthcare, justice, and human rights are global and cross-cultural in scope. The second edition of this interdisciplinary and international collection features new essays on the environment, medical tourism, mental health, vaccines, and other contemporary concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9781538123744
• ISBN-10: 1538123746
• Artikelnr.: 58017840

Autorenporträt

Wanda Teays is a professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Mount St. Mary's College.  Alison Dundes Renteln is a professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: Theoretical Perspectives 1.. Bernard Gert
"A Global Ethical Framework for Bioethics" 2. Tom L. Beauchamp
"The Compatibility of Universal Morality and Multiculturalism" 3. Robert Baker
"Response to Gert and Beauchamp" 4. Ilhan Ilkilic
"Culture and Ethical Aspects of Truth-Telling in a Value Pluralistic Society" 5. Peter Tagore Tan
"Bioethics as Environmental Ethics: Ontogeny Recapitulates Environment" 6. Søren Holm
"Lost in Translation: Can We have a Global Bioethics Without a Global Moral Language?" Discussion Topics PART TWO: Human Rights 1. Robert Baker
"Bioethics and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective" 2. Wanda Teays
"Boundaries of Torture" 3. Akiko Ito
"Bioethics and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" 4. Virginia L. Warren
"Medical Tourism: Justice
Autonomy and Power" 5. Alison Dundes Renteln
"Impact and Influence of the Institutional Review Board: Protecting the Rights of Human Subjects in Scientific Experiments" 6. Peter F. Omonzejele
"Understanding The Concept Of Vulnerability From A Western Africa Perspective" 7. Marlene Brant Castellano
"Ethics of Aboriginal Research" Discussion Topics PART THREE: Life and Death 1. Maya Sabatello
"Pediatrics Genomics: Current Dilemmas and a Messy Future" 2. Michael Boylan
"The Abortion Debate in the 21st Century" 3. Sharmin Islam
Rusli Bin Nordin
Ab Rani Bin Shamsuddin
Hanapi Bin Mohd Nor
and Abu Kholdun Al-Mahmood
"Ethics of Surrogacy: A Comparative Study of Western Secular and Islamic Bioethics." 4. Carlos Verdugo Serna
"Euthanasia Could be a Medical Duty" 5. Scott Stonington and Pinit Ratanakul
"Is There a Global Bioethics? End of Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference" 6. Cecilia Wee
"Confucianism and Killing vs. Letting Die" 7. Cher Weixia Chen
"Global v. Local: The Use of Lethal Injection in China" Discussion Topics PART FOUR: Public Health 1. Udo Schüklenk
"Issues in Global Health Ethics" 2. Zenon Culverhouse
"A Bioethics for Global Mental Health" 3. Rosemarie Tong
"Long-Term Care for Elderly People Globally: A Feminist Perspective" 4. Alison Dundes Renteln
"The Human Rights Dimensions of Virginity Restoration Surgery" 5. Rita Manning
"Immigration Detention and the Right to Health Care" 6. Wanda Teays
"Solitary Confinement" 7. Keymanthri Moodley
Kate Hardie
Michael J. Selgelid
Ronald J. Waldman
Peter Strebel
Helen Rees and David N. Durrheim
"Ethical Considerations for Vaccination Programmes In Acute Humanitarian Crises" Discussion Topics ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 1. Alison Dundes Renteln
"Essay Questions" 2. Wanda Teays
"Case Analysis Topics" 3. Bioethics in Film