Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives

ISBN 10: 1538123754 / ISBN 13: 9781538123751

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2020, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538123754
• ISBN 13: 9781538123751
• Binding: Paper Back
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Used
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Synopsis

The ethical issues we face in health care, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries―they are global and cross-cultural in scope. Editors Wanda Teays and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of a diverse interdisciplinary and international team of bioethics experts into a comprehensive, innovative, and accessible resource.

Following a consideration of theoretical frameworks that inform a global bioethics, units on human rights, life and death, and public health form an in-depth look at contemporary issues in the field. Each unit includes cutting edge analyses and thought-provoking case studies, as well as discussion prompts. Topics range from torture and lethal injection to euthanasia, abortion, medical tourism, vulnerable human subjects, to health equity, vaccination programs, mental health, the ethics of surrogacy, and more.

The second edition includes new essays on
• bioethics and environmental ethics
• medical tourism
• torture and solitary confinement
• institutional review boards
• pediatric genomics
• the abortion debate
• the ethics of surrogacy
• issues in global health ethics
• revirgination surgery
• global mental health
• feminist perspectives on global aging
• ethical considerations for vaccination programs

About the Author

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