Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues at Home and Abroad - Softcover

Teays, Wanda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1538188600 ISBN 13: 9781538188606

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

This third edition collection provides a contemporary survey of current international issues in bioethics and human rights for study across social science disciplines. New chapters discuss the reproductive justice in the US, immigration politics and medical duty during pandemics, climate change implications for bioethics, acoustic weaponry technologies, and vaccine politics.
Following a consideration of theoretical frameworks, there three units on human rights, life and death, and public health form an in-depth look at contemporary issues in the field of bioethics. Each unit includes cutting edge analyses by international experts and thought-provoking case studies, as well as discussion and essay prompts, and Internet and film resources. Topics range from pediatric genomics, abortion (including the Dobbs decision, medical tourism, human experimentation, climate change, the Havana syndrome, the care of aging family members, truth-telling, vulnerable human subjects, health equity, healthcare in ICE detention facilities, solitary confinement, euthanasia, lethal injections and the harvesting of human organs, pandemic ethics, vaccine controversies, and more.
The new, updated, and retained chapters make this book an appealing resource as a primary text, scholarly reference book, or a course supplement.
Contributors:Robert Baker, Tom L. Beauchamp, Michael Boylan, Marlene Brant Castellano, Cher Weixia Chen, Zenon Culverhouse, Bernard Gert, Sĝren Holm, Ilhan Ilkilic, Akiko Ito, Rita Manning, Kimberly Mutcherson, Peter F. Omonzejele, Pinit Ratanakul, Alison Dundes Renteln, Maya Sabatello, Udo Schüklenk, Edward H. Spence, Bradley P. Stoner, Scott Stonington, Peter Tagore Tan, Wanda Teays, Rosemarie Tong, Carlos Verdugo-Serna, Virginia L. Warren, Cecilia (Lim) Wee

About this title

About the Authors

Wanda Teays is philosophy professor emerita at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles.

Alison Dundes Renteln is professor of political science at the University of Southern California.Together, Teays and Renteln have also edited The Ethical University: Transforming Higher Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538188600
• ISBN 13: 9781538188606
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 438