Global bioethics [[electronic resource] ] : issues of conscience for the twenty-first century / / edited by Ronald M. Green, Aine Donovan, and Steven A. Jauss

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 174/.957
• Soggetto topico: Medical ethics; Medicine - Research - Moral and ethical aspects; Globalization; World health; Bioethics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GreenRonald Michael DonovanAine JaussSteven A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Population-level bioethics : mapping a new agenda / Daniel Wikler and Dan W. Brock -- What is it like to be a bird? : Wikler and Brock on the ethics of population health / Nir Eyal -- The evolving norms of medical ethics / Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- Convergent trends in modern medical ethics : medicine-based ethics and human rights / Johannes J. M. van Delden -- Just research in an unjust world : can harm reduction be an acceptable tool for public health prevention research? / Nancy E. Kass -- Harm reduction research : ethics and compliance / Ana S. Iltis -- Global justice, human rights, and health / Ruth Macklin -- Achieving global justice in health through global research ethics : supplementing Macklin's "top--down" approach with one from the "ground up" / Eric M. Meslin -- ; Harnessing advanced technologies for global health equity / Peter A. Singer ... [et al.] -- American "medical professionalism" : at home and in the world / Robert Martensen -- Professionalism and medical education in the developing world / Kisali Pallangyo -- Physician-assisted death : not just for rich countries / Johannes J. M. van Delden and Margaret P. Battin -- Embryo as epiphenomenon : some cultural, social, and economic forces driving the stem cell debate / Ronald M. Green -- The role and influence of religions in bioethics / Denis Müller -- Global norms, informed consensus, and hypocrisy in bioethics / John Harris -- Global norms in bioethics : problems and prospects / Françoise Baylis.
• Sommario/riassunto: The ethics of medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. This volume gathers leading bioethicists to explore many new questions raised by the internationalization of medical care and biomedical research. Topics covered include, amongst others, the impact of globalization and the relation of religion to global bioethics. - ;Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. Ethical questions that once arose only in the narrow context of the physician-patient relationship in relatively prosperous societies are now being raised across societies, cultures, and
• Titolo autorizzato: Global bioethics
• ISBN: 1-281-92541-1; 9786611925413; 0-19-156302-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454291403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Issues in biomedical ethics.