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Global Bioethics - An introduction (Hardcover)
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Global Bioethics - An introduction (Hardcover)
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The panorama of bioethical problems is different today. Patients
travel to Thailand for fast surgery; commercial surrogate mothers
in India deliver babies to parents in rich countries; organs, body
parts and tissues are trafficked from East to Western Europe;
physicians and nurses migrating from Africa to the U.S; thousands
of children or patients with malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS are
dying each day because they cannot afford effective drugs that are
too expensive. Mainstream bioethics as it has developed during the
last 50 years in Western countries is evolving into a broader
approach that is relevant for people across the world and is
focused on new global problems. This book provides an introduction
into the new field of global bioethics. Addressing these problems
requires a broader vision of bioethics that not only goes beyond
the current emphasis on individual autonomy, but that criticizes
the social, economic and political context that is producing the
problems at global level. This book argues that global bioethics is
a necessity because the social, economic and environmental effects
of globalization require critical responses. Global bioethics is
not a finished product that can simply be applied to solve global
problems, but it is the ongoing result of interaction and exchange
between local practices and global discourse. It combines
recognition of differences and respect for cultural diversity with
convergence towards common perspectives and shared values. The book
examines the nature of global problems as well as the type of
responses that are needed, in order to exemplify the substance of
global bioethics. It discusses the ethical frameworks that are
available for global discourse and shows how these are transformed
into global governance mechanisms and practices.
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