Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442232145 ISBN 13: 9781442232143

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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 discussionsand lively case studies. Topics range from torture and lethal injection toeuthanasia, sex selection, vulnerable human subjects, to health equity, safety and public health, and environmental disasters like Bhopal, Fukushima, and more.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1442232145
• ISBN 13: 9781442232143
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 443
• Herausgeber: Teays Wanda, Gordon John-stewart, Renteln Alison Dundes
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar