Issues that mix science and politics present some of today's
most daunting ethical questions. Did China violate the human rights
of prisoners in 2001 by harvesting their kidneys and other organs
without their formal consent? Do the victims of AIDS in sub-Saharan
Africa have the right to effective pharmaceutical treatments that
are beyond their financial reach? Have incautious steps toward
human cloning trodden dangerously close to the revival of eugenics?
"Science in the Service of Human Rights" presents a new framework
for debate on such controversial questions surrounding scientific
freedom and responsibility by illuminating the many critical points
of intersection between human rights and science.In the wake of the
horrors of the Nazi engineers' grotesque experiments and the
devastating advent of the atom bomb, the architects of the United
Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sought to
structure new world arrangements where those in power would be
bridled by rational principles favoring peace. Though UN-formulated
norms have slowly matured to the status of binding international
law, the fragmentation of knowledge in modern society is such that
few scientists know about the existence and content of the related
UN declarations and covenants or their implications.Richard Pierre
Claude's book redresses this lack and satisfies curriculum
development aiming to integrate human rights standards into the
humanities, law, public health, and the social and physical
sciences. It offers a systematic and much-needed clarification of
the origins and meanings of everyone's right to enjoy the benefits
of the advancements of science.
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