Bioethics and Human Rights
Contemporary Issues at Home and Abroad
3rd Edition
Published on 12. December 2023
Book
Hardback
438 pages
978-1-5381-8859-0 (ISBN)
Description
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, Soren Holm, Ilhan Ilkilic, Akiko Ito, Rita Manning, Kimberly Mutcherson, Peter F. Omonzejele, Pinit Ratanakul, Alison Dundes Renteln, Maya Sabatello, Udo Schueklenk, Edward H. Spence, Bradley P. Stoner, Scott Stonington, Peter Tagore Tan, Wanda Teays, Rosemarie Tong, Carlos Verdugo-Serna, Virginia L. Warren, Cecilia (Lim) Wee
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, Soren Holm, Ilhan Ilkilic, Akiko Ito, Rita Manning, Kimberly Mutcherson, Peter F. Omonzejele, Pinit Ratanakul, Alison Dundes Renteln, Maya Sabatello, Udo Schueklenk, Edward H. Spence, Bradley P. Stoner, Scott Stonington, Peter Tagore Tan, Wanda Teays, Rosemarie Tong, Carlos Verdugo-Serna, Virginia L. Warren, Cecilia (Lim) Wee
Reviews / Votes
This new and timely edition of an emerging classical volume on bioethics and human rights meets most expectations. However, this new iteration does not replace, but rather complements, previous editions. While the book still includes well-crafted, fundamental pieces that both support and challenge the notion of global bioethics, epitomized by the unperishable trio of Gert, Beauchamp, and Holm, this edition includes several new articles that address previously missing questions and approach more voguish issues. Culture and truth-telling in medicine and the rights of persons with disabilities count among the former, while a number of COVID-related articles belong to the latter. As in previous editions, the book has further readings and materials, specific questions for discussion, essays, and representative cases for didactic exercises. For those who are interested in the timeless problems of biomedicine and human rights, this volume delivers, yet this reviewer recommends referencing previous editions as well. Readers who are seeking more recent problems in health care and human rights will welcome it, although many journals have already published similar materials. This edition will have a shorter shelf life than its predecessors, which is the fate of all timely publications. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, practitioners. * Choice Reviews * This important collection takes a wide range of key ethical issues in global health and examines them in the context of human rights theory and practice. It could not be more useful or more timely. -- Richard Ashcroft, professor of bioethics, City Law School, City, University of London Combine authors from a Who's Who list in ethics with global issues that interest us all and you achieve this book. Well done! -- Doris Schroeder, director, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central LancashireMore details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1014 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-8859-0 (9781538188590)
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Contemporary Issues at Home and Abroad
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Introduction
PART I: Theoretical Perspectives
1. A Global Ethical Framework for Bioethics
Bernard Gert
2. The Compatibility of Universal Morality, Particular Moralities, and Multiculturalism
Tom L. Beauchamp
3. Culture and Ethical Aspects of Truth-Telling in a Value Pluralistic Society
Ilhan Ilkilic
4. Lost in Translation
Soren Holm
5. Issues in Global Health Ethics
Udo Schueklenk
6. Rights of Persons with Disabilities from a Global Perspective
Akiko Ito
Internet Resources
Discussion Topics
PART II: Human Rights
7. Bioethics and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective
Robert Baker
8. Medical Tourism: Justice, Autonomy, and Power
Virginia L. Warren
9. Solitary Confinement
Wanda Teays
10. Compensation For Research Related Injury For A Typically Ignored Social Harm
Peter F. Omonzejele
11. Ethics of Aboriginal Research
Marlene Brant Castellano
12. The Human Rights Dimensions of Virginity Restoration Surgery
Alison Dundes Renteln
Internet Resources
Discussion Topics
PART III: Life and Death
13. Pediatrics Genomics: Current Dilemmas and a Messy Future
Maya Sabatello
14. The Abortion Debate in the 21st Century and Substantive Due Process
Michael Boylan
15. The Future of Reproductive Justice in the United States After Dobbs
Kimberly Mutcherson
16. Euthanasia Could be a Medical Duty
Carlos Verdugo Serna
17. Is There a Global Bioethics? End of Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference
Scott Stonington and Pinit Ratanakul
18. Confucianism and Killing versus Letting Die
Cecilia Wee
19. Global versus Local: The Use of Lethal Injection in China
Cher Weixia Chen
Internet Resources
Discussion Topics
PART IV: Public Health
20. A Bioethics for Global Mental Health
Zenon Culverhouse
21. Long-Term Care for Elderly People Globally: A Feminist Perspective
Rosemarie Tong
22. Reconsidering Acoustic Attacks
Alison Dundes Renteln
23. Climate Change and Bioethics
Peter Tagore Tan
24. Immigration Detention and the Right to Health Care in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rita Manning
25. Ethics in a Pandemic: A Rights-Centered Foundation
Edward H. Spence
26. Is There a Duty to Treat in a Pandemic?
Wanda Teays
27. Vaccine Nationalism and Equity: Bioethical Considerations
Bradley P. Stoner
Internet Resources
Discussion Topics
APPENDICES
Appendix A. Essay Questions
Appendix B. Case Analysis Topics
Appendix C. Bioethics in Film
Index
About the Contributors
PART I: Theoretical Perspectives
1. A Global Ethical Framework for Bioethics
Bernard Gert
2. The Compatibility of Universal Morality, Particular Moralities, and Multiculturalism
Tom L. Beauchamp
3. Culture and Ethical Aspects of Truth-Telling in a Value Pluralistic Society
Ilhan Ilkilic
4. Lost in Translation
Soren Holm
5. Issues in Global Health Ethics
Udo Schueklenk
6. Rights of Persons with Disabilities from a Global Perspective
Akiko Ito
Internet Resources
Discussion Topics
PART II: Human Rights
7. Bioethics and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective
Robert Baker
8. Medical Tourism: Justice, Autonomy, and Power
Virginia L. Warren
9. Solitary Confinement
Wanda Teays
10. Compensation For Research Related Injury For A Typically Ignored Social Harm
Peter F. Omonzejele
11. Ethics of Aboriginal Research
Marlene Brant Castellano
12. The Human Rights Dimensions of Virginity Restoration Surgery
Alison Dundes Renteln
Internet Resources
Discussion Topics
PART III: Life and Death
13. Pediatrics Genomics: Current Dilemmas and a Messy Future
Maya Sabatello
14. The Abortion Debate in the 21st Century and Substantive Due Process
Michael Boylan
15. The Future of Reproductive Justice in the United States After Dobbs
Kimberly Mutcherson
16. Euthanasia Could be a Medical Duty
Carlos Verdugo Serna
17. Is There a Global Bioethics? End of Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference
Scott Stonington and Pinit Ratanakul
18. Confucianism and Killing versus Letting Die
Cecilia Wee
19. Global versus Local: The Use of Lethal Injection in China
Cher Weixia Chen
Internet Resources
Discussion Topics
PART IV: Public Health
20. A Bioethics for Global Mental Health
Zenon Culverhouse
21. Long-Term Care for Elderly People Globally: A Feminist Perspective
Rosemarie Tong
22. Reconsidering Acoustic Attacks
Alison Dundes Renteln
23. Climate Change and Bioethics
Peter Tagore Tan
24. Immigration Detention and the Right to Health Care in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rita Manning
25. Ethics in a Pandemic: A Rights-Centered Foundation
Edward H. Spence
26. Is There a Duty to Treat in a Pandemic?
Wanda Teays
27. Vaccine Nationalism and Equity: Bioethical Considerations
Bradley P. Stoner
Internet Resources
Discussion Topics
APPENDICES
Appendix A. Essay Questions
Appendix B. Case Analysis Topics
Appendix C. Bioethics in Film
Index
About the Contributors