Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442232137 ISBN 13: 9781442232136

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

Synopsis

The ethical issues we face in healthcare, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries-they are global and cross-cultural in scope. Editors Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of an interdisciplinary, international team of experts in bioethics into a comprehensive, innovative and accessible book. It opens with theoretical frameworks that inform a Global Bioethics, followed by three units for an in-depth look at contemporary issues in the field. These are human rights, culture, and public health-with each unit including theoretical discussions and lively case studies. Topics range from torture and lethal injection to euthanasia, sex selection, vulnerable human subjects, to health equity, safety and public health, and environmental disasters like Bhopal, Fukushima, and more.

About this title

About the Author

Wanda Teays is a professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Mount St. Mary’s College. John-Stewart Gordon is W1 Professor in Anthropology and Ethics in Rehabilitation Sciences at the Faculty of Human Sciences at Cologne University. Alison Dundes Renteln is a professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442232137
• ISBN 13: 9781442232136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 456
• Editor: Teays Wanda, Gordon Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas Lithuania John-Stewart, Renteln Alison Dundes