Global bioethics : issues of conscience for the twenty-first century / edited by Ronald M. Green, Aine Donovan, and Steven A. Jauss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Ronald Michael.

Donovan, Aine

Jauss, Steven A.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Issues in biomedical ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Medicine--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medicine.

Globalization.

World health.

Bioethics.

Bioethical Issues.

Ethics, Medical.

Bioethics--trends.

Biomedical Research--ethics.

Global Health.

Medicine--Research.

Medical Subjects:

Bioethical Issues.

Ethics, Medical.

Bioethics--trends.

Biomedical Research--ethics.

Global Health.

Physical Description:

xiv, 352 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. Questions in biomedical ethics, which once arose mainly in the narrow context of ethical analysis of the physician-patient relationship in relatively prosperous countries, are now being raised across societies, cultures, and continents. For example, what should be the 'standard of care' for clinical trials of medical innovations in poorer countries? Are researchers obligated to compare new therapies or drugs with the best known ones available, or can they use as a benchmark the actual treatments (or lack of treatments) available to poor people? Should pharmaceutical companies seeking to lower the costs of new drug trials be allowed to enrol citizens of less developed countries in them even when those individuals cannot afford and will not be eligible for the resulting drugs? More generally, should the norms of medicine and research be the same across cultures or can they adapt to local social, economic, or religious conditions? Global Bioethics gathers some of the world's leading bioethicists to explore many of the new questions raised by the globalization of medical care and biomedical research. Among the topics covered are the impact of globalization on the norms of medical ethics, the conduct of international research, the ethics of international collaborations, challenges to medical professionalism in the international setting, and the relation of religion to global bioethics.

Contents:

Population-level bioethics : mapping a new agenda / Daniel Wikler and Dan W. Brock

What is it like to be a bird? : Wikler and Brock on the ethics of population health / Nir Eyal

The evolving norms of medical ethics / Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Convergent trends in modern medical ethics : medicine-based ethics and human rights / Johannes J. M. van Delden

Just research in an unjust world : can harm reduction be an acceptable tool for public health prevention research? / Nancy E. Kass

Harm reduction research : ethics and compliance / Ana S. Iltis

Global justice, human rights, and health / Ruth Macklin

Achieving global justice in health through global research ethics : supplementing Macklin's "top

down" approach with one from the "ground up" / Eric M. Meslin

Harnessing advanced technologies for global health equity / Peter A. Singer ... [et al.]

American "medical professionalism" : at home and in the world / Robert Martensen

Professionalism and medical education in the developing world / Kisali Pallangyo

Physician-assisted death : not just for rich countries / Johannes J. M. van Delden and Margaret P. Battin

Embryo as epiphenomenon : some cultural, social, and economic forces driving the stem cell debate / Ronald M. Green

The role and influence of religions in bioethics / Denis Müller

Global norms, informed consensus, and hypocrisy in bioethics / John Harris

Global norms in bioethics : problems and prospects / Françoise Baylis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780199546596

0199546592

OCLC:

229023774