Global bioethics : issues of conscience for the twenty-first century /

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Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:xiv, 352 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Issues in biomedical ethics
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7535027
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Other authors / contributors:Green, Ronald Michael.
Donovan, Aine.
Jauss, Steven A.
ISBN:9780199546596 (alk. paper)
0199546592 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Normative Bases
  • 1. Population-Level Bioethics: Mapping a New Agenda
  • 2. What Is It Like to Be a Bird? Wikler and Brock on the Ethics of Population Health
  • 3. The Evolving Norms of Medical Ethics
  • 4. Convergent Trends in Modern Medical Ethics: Medicine-Based Ethics and Human Rights
  • Part II. Global Research Ethics
  • 5. Just Research in an Unjust World: Can Harm Reduction Be an Acceptable Tool for Public Health Prevention Research?
  • 6. Harm Reduction Research: Ethics and Compliance
  • 7. Global Justice, Human Rights, and Health
  • Part III. Biomedical/Bioethical Collaborations
  • 8. Achieving Global Justice in Health through Global Research Ethics: Supplementing Macklin's "Top-Down" Approach with one from the "Ground Up"
  • 9. Harnessing Advanced Technologies for Global Health Equity
  • Part IV. Training Professional, Ethical Physicians
  • 10. American "Medical Professionalism": At Home and in the World
  • 11. Professionalism and Medical Education in the Developing World
  • Part V. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death
  • 12. Physician-Assisted Death: Not Just for Rich Countries
  • Part VI. Global Bioethics and Religion
  • 13. Embryo as Epiphenomenon: Some Cultural, Social, and Economic Forces Driving the Stem Cell Debate
  • 14. The Role and Influence of Religions in Bioethics
  • Part VII. Public Global Bioethics Consultations
  • 15. Global Norms, Informed Consensus, and Hypocrisy in Bioethics
  • 16. Global Norms in Bioethics: Problems and Prospects
  • Index