Bioethics was "born in the USA" and the values American bioethics
embrace are based on American law, including liberty and justice.
This book crosses the borders between bioethics and law, but moves
beyond the domestic law/bioethics struggles for dominance by
exploring attempts to articulate universal principles based on
international human rights. The isolationism of bioethics in the US
is not tenable in the wake of scientific triumphs like decoding the
human genome, and civilizational tragedies like international
terrorism. Annas argues that by crossing boundaries which have
artificially separated bioethics and health law from the
international human rights movement, American bioethics can be
reborn as a global force for good, instead of serving mainly the
purposes of U.S. academics. This thesis is explored in a variety of
international contexts such as terrorism and genetic engineering,
and in U.S. domestic disputes such as patient rights and market
medicine. The citizens of the world have created two universal
codes: science has sequenced the human genome and the United
Nations has produced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The
challenge for American bioethics is to combine these two great
codes in imaginative and constructive ways to make the world a
better, and healthier, place to live.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2009 |
| First published: |
April 2009 |
| Authors: |
George Annas
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 157 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
264 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-539029-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
Medical ethics
|
| LSN: |
0-19-539029-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780195390292 |
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