Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues - Softcover

 
9781442232143: Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues

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The ethical issues we face in healthcare, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries—they are global and cross-cultural in scope. Editors Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of an interdisciplinary, international team of experts in bioethics into a comprehensive, innovative and accessible book. It opens with theoretical frameworks that inform a Global Bioethics, followed by three units for an in-depth look at contemporary issues in the field. These are human rights, culture, and public health—with each unit including theoretical discussionsand lively case studies. Topics range from torture and lethal injection toeuthanasia, sex selection, vulnerable human subjects, to health equity, safety and public health, and environmental disasters like Bhopal, Fukushima, and more.

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Wanda Teays is a professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Mount St. Mary’s College. John-Stewart Gordon is W1 Professor in Anthropology and Ethics in Rehabilitation Sciences at
the Faculty of Human Sciences at Cologne University.
Alison Dundes Renteln is a professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California.

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ISBN 10:  1442232137 ISBN 13:  9781442232136
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
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