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Global Justice and Bioethics (Hardcover)
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Global Justice and Bioethics (Hardcover)
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Despite the massive scale of global inequalities, until recently
few political philosophers or bioethicists addressed their ethical
implications. Questions of justice were thought to be primarily
internal to the nation state. Over the last decade or so, there has
been an explosion of interest in the philosophical issues
surrounding global justice. These issues are of direct relevance to
bioethics. The links between poverty and health imply that we
cannot separate questions of global health from questions about
fair distribution of global resources and the institutions
governing the world order. Similarly, as increasing numbers of
medical trials are conducted in the developing world, researchers
and their sponsors have to confront the special problems of doing
research in an unjust world, with corresponding obligations to
correct injustice and avoid exploitation. This book presents a
collection of original essays by leading thinkers in political
theory, philosophy, and bioethics. They address the key issues
concerning global justice and bioethics from two perspectives. The
first is ideal theory, which is concerned with the social
institutions that would regulate a just world. What is the
relationship between human rights and the provision of health care?
How, if at all, should a global order distinguish between
obligations to compatriots and others? The second perspective is
from non-ideal theory, which governs how people should behave in
the unjust world in which we actually find ourselves. What sort of
medical care should actual researchers working in impoverished
countries offer their subjects? What should NGOs do in the face of
cultural practices with which they deem unethical? If coordinated
international action will not happen, what ought individual states
to do? These questions have more than theoretical interest; their
answers are of direct practical import for policymakers,
researchers, advocates, NGOs, scholars, and others. This book is
the first collection to comprehensively address the intersection of
global justice and bioethical dilemmas.
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