Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues

ISBN 10: 1442232137 / ISBN 13: 9781442232136

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442232137
• ISBN 13: 9781442232136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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 discussions and lively case studies. Topics range from torture and lethal injection to euthanasia, sex selection, vulnerable human subjects, to health equity, safety and public health, and environmental disasters like Bhopal, Fukushima, and more.

About the Authors

Michael Boylan is Professor and Chair in philosophy at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, USA. His most recent books are The Extinction of Desire (Blackwell, 2007), a philosophical novel and A Just Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), a monograph on ethics and political philosophy.

Alison Dundes Renteln is a Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at the University of Southern California.