
Bioethics in Perspective
Corporate Power, Public Health and Political Economy
Scott Mann(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 13. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
294 pages
978-0-521-75656-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Bioethics in Perspective Scott Mann demonstrates the importance of issues of corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes around the world. The text develops a comprehensive ethical and practical critique of the neoliberal economic ideas which have guided policy in the English-speaking world. It explores the consequences of such policies for health and healthcare around the world, in terms of increasing health inequalities, serious food and water shortages, inadequate health care provision and the marketing of dangerous and unnecessary drugs. With clear proposals for political and economic reform to effectively address these problems, Bioethics in Perspective provides an important counterbalance to much conventional commentary on bioethics. It takes readers with little or no prior knowledge of ethics, economics or medicine quickly and easily into advanced debates and discussions about the causes and consequences of health and illness around the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-75656-3 (9780521756563)
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Person
Scott Mann BA Hons (Sussex), MPhil (Sussex), PhD (Sydney) is Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Western Sydney.
Content
Introduction; 1. Ethics and ideology; 2. Freely competitive markets; 3. Problems of competition; 4. Health inequalities; 5. Food and water; 6. GM foods and life patents; 7. Energy and greenhouse; 8. Healthcare provision; 9. Drugs, drug-testing and drug companies; 10. What is to be done.